Posted by Anim8rFSK on 08/10/06 02:37

In article <631ld25f4m2v0m9l34m7q5ojnibd0o47m4@4ax.com>,
Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:

> 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.

No, it doesn't.

> It was used for decades almost exclusively to describe
> communists.

No, it wasn't. It was coined in the 1980s.

> 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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