The Washington Post, October 22, 2019: Pressed on Transgender Comments, HUD’s Carson Says Political Correctness is “Going to Destroy Our Nation”
“No,” he said, his hands clasped at the table where he had sat for nearly three hours during the House Financial Services hearing about affordable housing. “I think this whole concept of political correctness — you can say this, you can’t say that, you can’t repeat what someone said — is total foolishness, and it’s going to destroy our nation, and we need to be more mature than that.”
