Maybe it's not just one person, (hint) maybe it's an entire political party !! Or could it have been 'fear' of the ACLU ???
2006-12-07 23:55:19 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The contemporary use of the term political correctness is said to derived from Marxist-Leninist vocabulary to describe the Party Line. [1]
The term was transformed and used jokingly within the Left by the early 1980s, possibly earlier. [citation needed] In this context, the phrase was applied to either an over-commitment to various left-wing political causes, especially within Marxism or the feminist movement; or to a tendency by some of those dedicated to these causes to be more concerned with rhetoric and vocabulary than with substance.
The term again became popular in the early 1990s as part of a conservative challenge to curriculum and teaching methods on college campuses in the United States (D'Souza 1991; Berman 1992; Schultz 1993; Messer Davidow 1993, 1994; Scatamburlo 1998). In a commencement address at the University of Michigan in 1991, President George H. W. Bush spoke out against administrators and academics who would "declare certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits" (Glassner 1999). Use of the term declined in the late 1990s, and it is now mostly seen in comedy or as a political slur with questionable meaning. More recently, the term has been reclaimed by a tiny subset of multiculturalist writers and speakers who reject (or are oblivious to) its controversial connotations and origins. It is also occasionally employed by leftists to deride what they regard as clichéd or disingenuous rightist themes such as "family values," "compassionate conservatism," or "God and Country".
This from Wikipedia but someone is challenging the balance of the report. May be revisionist history in the making. Deja Vu all over again!
2006-12-08 00:00:09 · answer #1 · answered by Rich B 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rich wrote the real answer, but it was the Liberals that shoved it down our throats. I used to joke that I would never be politically correct and tell everyone completely how I feel with no holds barred.
But lately I've loosened up a bit on being completely brutally honest with people and lie a little to not hurt feelings overly much.
2006-12-08 08:26:29 · answer #2 · answered by Mikira 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think it was the feminist movement. Although I hate to agree with Paul K, and slam all women lawyers.
Some of us are quite conservative.
2006-12-08 08:01:59 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Political correctness was created by Republicans and other right-wingers who wanted to keep using racist, sexist and ethnist language.
They then set out to create an imaginary movement called "political correctness" knowing that their red-neck supporters would glom on to it, and make fun of liberals even more.
In liberal circles, political correctness is unknown. You only hear about it from the Fox News crowd.
2006-12-08 08:50:25 · answer #4 · answered by bettysdad 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Not sure who created it but we sure know who was the biggest victim of political correctness: Trent Lott.
And the ironic thing is that Lott lost his position as majority leader because of (Gasp!) the Bush administration. After Lott's comments on senator Strom Thurmond Bush criticized him (by name) in a speech in Philadelphia in front of an audience made up predominantly of minorities.
Nice, eh?
2006-12-08 08:06:40 · answer #5 · answered by Timothy B 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I really think the ACLU had a lot to do with it ,then the politicians went with it because they saw that is was a way of getting around the truth ............It was a legal way of lying to us and getting by with it.
2006-12-08 08:05:31 · answer #6 · answered by hardhead 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The people that do not want to offend anybody and are so afraid of doing or saying the wrong thing that it makes them completely ineffective and useless.
I won't name them because it isn't politically correct!!!! ;-]
2006-12-08 08:12:53 · answer #7 · answered by P!ss Ant 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The left wing media
2006-12-08 08:44:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
The same who control our media. I'd be more specific, but I don't want to have my answer reported for telling the truth.
2006-12-08 08:18:09 · answer #9 · answered by profile image 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Socialist's and Democrats, probably originated from the somewhere in the UK.
2006-12-08 07:59:04 · answer #10 · answered by anw 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋