"Political Correctness"

The term political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated PC) is used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.[1][2]
The term "politically correct" was used infrequently until the latter part of the 20th century. This earlier use did not communicate the social disapproval usually implied in more recent usage. In 1793, the term "politically correct" appeared in a U.S. Supreme Court judgment of a political lawsuit.[33] The term also had use in other English-speaking countries in the 1800s.[34] William Safire states that the first recorded use of the term in the typical modern sense is by Toni Cade Bambara in the 1970 anthology The Black Woman.[35]
 Early usage of the term by leftists, in the 1970s and '80s, was as self-critical satire; usage was sarcastic and ironic, rather than a name for a serious political movement.[7][12][13][14] It was considered an in-joke among leftists for those who were too rigid in their strict adherence to political orthodoxy.[15]
The modern pejorative usage of the term emerged from conservative criticism of the New Left in the late 20th century. This usage was popularized by a number of articles in The New York Times and other media throughout the 1990s,[16][17][18][19][20][21] and was widely used in the debate about Allan Bloom's 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind,[7]
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* Free Speech; Abuse; Bigotry; Hate speech; Abusive language; Vice; Virtue; Virtue signaling 
* Caritas; Extending good will; Arguing in good faith; Temperance 
* AI and "Political Correctness"; Leftism; Ableism; Antiablism; Social Justice; Alienation 
* Alienating discourse; Classism 
=== Rhizomata ===
* Correct language; Euphemism; Speaking from the heart; Politeness; Courtesy
* Political language; Political neologism; Rhetoric; Argument;
* Communication; Rectification of names
Category:Politics
Category:Political left