Who Started the term "politically correct?"

[jan]

Isn't just "correct" enough...where did the word political come from?  I learned early on not to get involved in politics, debates.  I found out this is one sure way to lose a friend.....a strong opinion tossed out on politics.

Lately people have been into censorship, being politically correct. "Watch your language" is another.

So what the hell is going on that people are getting so sensitve about whats correct for a group of people.  Maybe I should get upset that no one talks about what interests me, or answers my comments and questions on things.  Does that make me a "politically uncorrect" person?

People will always be on opposite side, that is life.  We have a brain, therefore, we have our own thoughts, opinions  Why does one need to be censored, and the next gets the go ahead?

[jan]

When you are in a large group of people, something is always said that will offend one person. If something is said that offends me...I just let it ride. why make an issue over it when I know I could say something myself that is uncorrect to someone else sooner or later.
Hell, no talks about Czechs...I'm Czech, maybe I should be offended that no one does??? LMAO

[DJ]

From Wikipedia:

The earliest citation is not politically correct, found in the U.S. Supreme Court decision Chisholm v. Georgia (1793), denoting that the statement under judgment is literally incorrect, as understood in the eighteenth-century US: “The states, rather than the People, for whose sakes the States exist, are frequently the objects which attract and arrest our principal attention. . . . Sentiments and expressions of this inaccurate kind prevail in our common, even in our convivial, language. Is a toast asked? [To] ‘The United States’, instead of [to] the ‘People of the United States’, is the toast given. This is not politically correct.”...

...Widespread use of the term "politically correct" and its derivatives began when it was adopted as a pejorative term by the political right in the 1990s, in the context of the Culture Wars. Writing in the New York Times in 1990, Richard Bernstein noted "The term "politically correct," with its suggestion of Stalinist orthodoxy, is spoken more with irony and disapproval than with reverence. But across the country the term p.c., as it is commonly abbreviated, is being heard more and more in debates over what should be taught at the universities." Bernstein referred to a meeting of the Western Humanities Conference in Berkeley, California, on " 'Political Correctness' and Cultural Studies", which examined "what effect the pressure to conform to currently fashionable ideas is having on scholarship".

[Kent]

It seems funny to me that the people that we "offend" are the same people that crash planes into our buildings and want to see us dead!

 

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