"Before "woke", we had "political correctness gone mad". It is the "gone mad" bit that turns it from a positive to a negative attribute."

A couple of weeks ago an acquaintance in the pub told me he was fed up with political correctness. He said he felt he had to be careful talking in public, in case somebody overheard and got upset.

I asked him if he ever swore in front of his parents. Turns out that he had not. I sighed and shook my head. That political correctness gets everywhere.