The uproar over reality TV star Donald Trump saying that Mexican immigrants are rapists and drug dealers is the result of politically correct or “P.C.” culture run amok, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said this week.

“It’s the P.C. police out in force,” the 2016 Republican presidential candidate said Monday in an interview with the Daily Caller. “They want to make very clear that this is a topic you’re not supposed to bring up.”