The Washington Post: Pressed on Transgender Comments, HUD’s Carson Says Political Correctness is “Going to Destroy Our Nation”

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The Washington Post, October 22, 2019: Pressed on Transgender Comments, HUD’s Carson Says Political Correctness is “Going to Destroy Our Nation”

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson decried political correctness during a congressional hearing instead of apologizing for controversial comments he made recently about transgender people.

Asked by Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) on whether he felt the need to apologize for his remarks about “big, hairy men” trying to infiltrate women’s homeless shelters during a meeting with HUD staff in San Francisco last month, Carson declined.

“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.”

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