Posted by bbcrock on 08/10/06 18:40

Thank you Howard!

for a few hours I thought I'd woken up in bizarro land.

I remember the term politically correct from the switch between the
Reagan and Bush administrations where certain people were "politically
correct" with the new administration officials and others were so tied
to Reagan's hollywood crowd they were "politically incorrest" with
Bush's New England intelligensia, or you know, central intelligensia.

Don

Howard Brazee 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. 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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