I'm with Jack (not literally - he's at least 100 miles further north). I always understood political correctness to be a right wing reactionary construct invented as a way of putting down and undermining progressive ideas like anti-racism and feminism. And if that's not how it originated, it's certainly what it's become. A bit like how Nigel Flange and Jeremy Clarkson and their ilk invent supposedly all-powerful liberal straw men to rail against to order to demonstrate to the gullible what anti-establishment wadical webels they are, whilst actually espousing pro-establishment views. As my old mam never said, "I'm not politically correct - I'm just correct."
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