Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.
You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.
(n.) Dismission; discharge.
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.