Posted by Howard Brazee on 08/10/06 01:00

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:22:24 -0700, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>Actually it doesn't. Policital Correctness was the attempt not to
>offend anybody (and giving equal creedance to the most clearly ludicrous
>of beliefs);

The term "political correctness" refers to government telling us how
to think. It was used for decades almost exclusively to describe
communists. Then it was discovered that this was a very good and
appropriate insult when used against those who use public pressure to
avoid using offensive terms. That it worked is saying something
positive about those it was used against. They recognized that the
term applied and wasn't good.

But we all use some politically correct constraints - with different
political aims.

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