Using politically incorrect speech can help people appear more authentic, according to new research.

[PoliticAverse]

When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refers to immigrant detention centers as “concentration camps,” or President Trump calls immigrants “illegals,” they may take some heat for being politically incorrect, but it has benefits as well.

Researchers found that replacing even a single politically correct word or phrase with a politically incorrect one—”illegal” versus “undocumented” immigrants, for example—makes people view a speaker as more authentic and less likely to be swayed by others.

“The cost of political incorrectness is that the speaker seems less warm, but they also appear less strategic and more ‘real,'” says coauthor Juliana Schroeder, an assistant professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

“The result may be that people may feel less hesitant in following politically incorrect leaders because they appear more committed to their beliefs,” Schroeder says.

Read the rest at: https://www.futurity.org/politically-incorrect-language-politics-2152582/

[Blues Heron]

1. She was being politically correct not incorrect

It's correct and right to call concentration camps concentration camps. Illegals is incorrect - no human is illegal. How hard is this to grasp.

[guillaumeb]

2. These camps are concentration camps.

The right is making language meaningless when they call concentration camps anything but what they are.