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"Political correctness"(adjectivally"politically correct";commonly abbreviated toP.C.) is a term used to describe language,[1][2][3]policies,[4]or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.[5][6][7]Since the late 1980s, the term has been used to describe a preference forinclusive languageand avoidance of language or behavior that can be seen asexcluding,marginalizing, or insulting to groups of people disadvantaged or discriminated against, particularly groups defined by ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. In public discourse and the media,[4][8][9]the term is generally used as apejorativewith an implication that these policies are excessive or unwarranted.[10][11]

The phrasepolitically correctfirst appeared in the 1930s, when it was used to describe dogmatic adherence to ideology intotalitarian regimes,such asNazi GermanyandSoviet Russia.[5]Early usage of the termpolitically correctbyleftistsin the 1970s and 1980s was as self-criticalsatire;[8]usage was ironic, rather than a name for a seriouspolitical movement.[12][13][14]It was considered an in-joke among leftists used to satirise those who were too rigid in their adherence to politicalorthodoxy.[15]The modern pejorative usage of the term emerged fromconservativecriticism of theNew Leftin the late 20th century, with many describing it as a form ofcensorship.[16]

Commentators on thepolitical left in the United Statescontend that conservatives use the concept of political correctness to downplay and divert attention from substantively discriminatory behavior against disadvantaged groups.[17][18][19]They also argue that thepolitical rightenforces its own forms of political correctness to suppress criticism of its favored constituencies and ideologies.[20][21][22]In the United States, the term has played a major role in theculture warbetweenliberalsandconservatives.[23]

History

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Early-to-mid 20th century

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Main article:Party line (politics)

In the early-to-mid 20th century, the phrasepolitically correctwas used to describe strict adherence to a range of ideological orthodoxies within politics. In 1934,The New York Timesreported that Nazi Germany was granting reporting permits "only to pure 'Aryans' whose opinions are politically correct".[5]

The termpolitical correctnessfirst appeared in Marxist–Leninist vocabulary following the Russian Revolution of 1917. At that time, it was used to describe strict adherence to the policies and principles of theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union,that is, theparty line.[24]Later in the United States, the phrase came to be associated with accusations ofdogmatismin debates between communists and socialists. According to American educatorHerbert Kohl,writing about debates in New York in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The term "politically correct" was used disparagingly, to refer to someone whose loyalty to the CP line overrode compassion, and led to bad politics. It was used by Socialists against Communists, and was meant to separate out Socialists who believed in egalitarian moral ideas from dogmatic Communists who would advocate and defend party positions regardless of their moral substance.

— "Uncommon Differences",The Lion and the Unicorn[4]

1970s

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Main article:New Left

In the 1970s, the AmericanNew Leftbegan using the termpolitically correct.[12]In the essayThe Black Woman: An Anthology(1970),Toni Cade Bambarasaid that "a man cannot be politically correct and a[male] chauvinist,too. "William Safirerecords this as the first use in the typical modern sense.[25]The term "political correctness" was believed to have been revived by the New Left through familiarity in the West withMao's Little Red Book,in which Mao stressed holding to the correct party line. The term rapidly began to be used by the New Left in an ironic or self-deprecating sense.[26]

Thereafter, the term was often used as self-criticalsatire.Debra L. Shultz said that "throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the New Left,feminists,andprogressives... used their term 'politically correct' ironically, as a guard against their own orthodoxy in social change efforts. "[8][12][13]PCis used in the comic bookMerton of the Movement,byBobby London,which was followed by the termideologically sound,in the comic strips ofBart Dickon.[12][27]In her essay "Toward a feminist Revolution" (1992)Ellen Willissaid: "In the early eighties, when feminists used the term 'political correctness', it was used to refer sarcastically to theanti-pornography movement's efforts to define a 'feminist sexuality'. "[14]

Stuart Hallsuggests one way in which the original use of the term may have developed into the modern one:

According to one version, political correctness actually began as an in-joke on the left: radical students on American campuses acting out an ironic replay of the Bad Old Days BS (Before the Sixties) when every revolutionary groupuscule had a party line about everything. They would address some glaring examples of sexist or racist behaviour by their fellow students in imitation of the tone of voice of the Red Guards or Cultural Revolution Commissar: "Not very 'politically correct', Comrade!"[15]

The term probably entered use in the modern sense in the United Kingdom around 1975.[11][clarification needed]

1980s and 1990s

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Allan Bloom'sThe Closing of the American Mind,a book first published in 1987,[28]heralded a debate about "political correctness" in American higher education in the 1980s and 1990s.[8][29][30]Professor of English literary and cultural studies atCMUJeffrey J. Williams wrote that the "assault on... political correctness that simmered through the Reagan years, gained bestsellerdom with Bloom'sClosing of the American Mind."[31]According to Z.F. Gamson, Bloom's book "attacked the faculty for 'political correctness'".[32]Prof. of Social Work atCSUTony Platt says the "campaign against 'political correctness'" was launched by Bloom's book in 1987.[33]

An October 1990New York Timesarticle byRichard Bernsteinis credited with popularizing the term.[34][35][36][37][38]At this time, the term was mainly being used within academia: "Across the country the term p.c., as it is commonly abbreviated, is being heard more and more in debates over what should be taught at the universities".[39]Nexiscitations in "arcnews/curnews" reveal only seventy total citations in articles to "political correctness" for 1990; but one year later, Nexis records 1,532 citations, with a steady increase to more than 7,000 citations by 1994.[37][40]In May 1991,The New York Timeshad a follow-up article, according to which the term was increasingly being used in a wider public arena:

What has come to be called "political correctness," a term that began to gain currency at the start of the academic year last fall, has spread in recent months and has become the focus of an angry national debate, mainly on campuses, but also in the larger arenas of American life.

— Robert D. McFadden, "Political Correctness: New Bias Test?", 1991[41]

The previously obscure far-left term became common currency in the lexicon of the conservative social and political challenges againstprogressive teaching methodsand curriculum changes in the secondary schools and universities of the U.S.[10][42][43][44][45][46]Policies, behavior, and speech codes that the speaker or the writer regarded as being the imposition of a liberal orthodoxy, were described and criticized as "politically correct".[17]In May 1991, at a commencement ceremony for a graduating class of the University of Michigan, then U.S. PresidentGeorge H. W. Bushused the term in his speech: "The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred, it replaces old prejudice with new ones. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expression off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits."[47][48][49]

After 1991, its use as a pejorative phrase became widespread amongst conservatives in the US.[10]It became a key term encapsulating conservative concerns about the left in cultural and political debates extending beyond academia. Two articles on the topic in late 1990 inForbesandNewsweekboth used the term "thought police"in their headlines, exemplifying the tone of the new usage, but it was Dinesh D'Souza'sIlliberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus(1991) which "captured the press's imagination".[10]Similar critical terminology was used by D'Souza for a range of policies in academia around victimization, supporting multiculturalism through affirmative action, sanctions against anti-minorityhate speech,and revising curricula (sometimes referred to as "canon busting" ).[10][a][failed verification]These trends were at least in part a response to multiculturalism and the rise ofidentity politics,with movements such as feminism, gay rights movements and ethnic minority movements. That response received funding from conservative foundations and think tanks such as theJohn M. Olin Foundation,which funded several books such as D'Souza's.[8][17]

Herbert Kohl,in 1992, commented that a number ofneoconservativeswho promoted the use of the term "politically correct" in the early 1990s were formerCommunist Partymembers, and, as a result, familiar with theMarxistuse of the phrase. He argued that in doing so, they intended "to insinuate that egalitarian democratic ideas are actually authoritarian, orthodox, and Communist-influenced, when they oppose the right of people to be racist, sexist, and homophobic".[4]

During the 1990s, conservative andright-wingpoliticians, think tanks, and speakers adopted the phrase as a pejorative descriptor of their ideological enemies, especially in the context of theculture warsaboutlanguageand the content of public-school curricula.Roger Kimball,inTenured Radicals,endorsedFrederick Crews's view that PC is best described as "Left Eclecticism", a term defined by Kimball as "any of a wide variety of anti-establishment modes of thought from structuralism and poststructuralism, deconstruction, and Lacanian analyst to feminist, homosexual, black, and other patently political forms of criticism".[52][31]

Liberal commentators have argued that the conservatives and reactionaries who used the term did so in an effort to divert political discussion away from the substantive matters of resolving societal discrimination,[53][54][55]such asracial,social class,gender,and legal inequality, against people whom conservatives do not consider part of the social mainstream.[8][18][56]Jan Narvesonwrote that "that phrase was born to live between scare-quotes: it suggests that the operative considerations in the area so called aremerelypolitical, steamrolling the genuine reasons of principle for which we ought to be acting... "[9]Commenting in 2001, one such British journalist,[57][58]Polly Toynbee,said "the phrase is an empty, right-wing smear, designed only to elevate its user",[59]and in 2010 she wrote "the phrase 'political correctness' was born as a coded cover for all who still want to sayPaki,spastic,orqueer".[60]Another British journalist,Will Hutton,[61][62][63][64]wrote in 2001:[65]

Political correctness is one of the brilliant tools that the American Right developed in the mid–1980s, as part of its demolition of American liberalism.... What the sharpest thinkers on the American Right saw quickly was that by declaring war on the cultural manifestations of liberalism – by levelling the charge of "political correctness" against its exponents – they could discredit the whole political project.

— Will Hutton,"Words Really are Important, Mr Blunkett", 2001

Glenn Lourywrote in 1994 that to address the subject of "political correctness" when power and authority within the academic community is being contested by parties on either side of that issue, is to invite scrutiny of one's arguments by would-be "friends" and "enemies". Combatants from the left and the right will try to assess whether a writer is "for them" or "against them".[66]Geoffrey Hughes suggested that debate over political correctness concerns whether changing language actually solves political and social problems, with critics viewing it less about solving problems than imposing censorship, intellectual intimidation and demonstrating the moral purity of those who practice it. Hughes also argues that political correctness tends to be pushed by a minority rather than an organic form of language change.[67]

Usage

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The modern pejorative usage of the term emerged fromconservativecriticism of theNew Leftin the late 20th century. This usage was popularized by a number of articles inThe New York Timesand other media throughout the 1990s,[34][35][36][39][41][68]and was widely used in the debate surroundingAllan Bloom's 1987 bookThe Closing of the American Mind.[8][28][29]The term gained further currency in response toRoger Kimball'sTenured Radicals(1990),[8][17][52]and conservative authorDinesh D'Souza's 1991 bookIlliberal Education.[8][10][17][69]Supporters of politically correct language have been pejoratively referred to as the "language police".[70]

Education

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Modern debate on the term was sparked by conservative critiques of perceivedliberal bias in academiaand education,[8]and conservatives have since used it as a major line of attack.[10]Similarly, a common conservative criticism of higher education in the United States is thatthe political views of teaching staffare more liberal than those of the general population, and that this contributes to an atmosphere of political correctness.[71][non-primary source needed]William Deresiewiczdefines political correctness as an attempt to silence "unwelcome beliefs and ideas", arguing that it is largely the result of for-profit education, as campus faculty and staff are wary of angering students upon whose fees they depend.[72][non-primary source needed]

Preliminary research published in 2020 indicated that students at a large U.S. public university generally felt instructors were open-minded and encouraged free expression of diverse viewpoints; nonetheless, most students worried about the consequences of voicing their political opinions, with "[a]nxieties about expressing political views and self-censorship... more prevalent among students who identify as conservative".[73][74]

As a conspiracy theory

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Main article:Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory

Some conservative commentators in theWestargue that "political correctness" and multiculturalism are part of a conspiracy with the ultimate goal of underminingJudeo-Christian values.This theory, which holds that political correctness originates from thecritical theoryof theFrankfurt Schoolas part of a conspiracy that its proponents call "Cultural Marxism".[75][76]The theory originated with Michael Minnicino's 1992 essay "New Dark Age: Frankfurt School and 'Political Correctness'", published in aLyndon LaRouchemovement journal.[77]In 2001, conservative commentatorPatrick Buchananwrote inThe Death of the Westthat "political correctness is cultural Marxism", and that "its trademark is intolerance".[78]

Media

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See also:Media bias

In the US, the term has been widely used in books and journals, but in Britain the usage has been confined mainly to the popular press.[79]Many such authors and popular-media figures, particularly on the right, have used the term to criticize what they see as bias in the media.[9][17]William McGowan argues that journalists get stories wrong or ignore stories worthy of coverage, because of what McGowan perceives to be their liberal ideologies and their fear of offending minority groups.[80]Robert Novak, in his essay "Political Correctness Has No Place in the Newsroom", used the term to blame newspapers for adopting language use policies that he thinks tend to excessively avoid the appearance of bias. He argued that political correctness in language not only destroys meaning but also demeans the people who are meant to be protected.[81][82][83]

Authors David Sloan and Emily Hoff claim that in the US, journalists shrug off concerns about political correctness in the newsroom, equating the political correctness criticisms with the old "liberal media bias" label.[84]According to author John Wilson, left-wing forces of "political correctness" have been blamed for unrelated censorship, withTimeciting campaigns against violence on network television in the US as contributing to a "mainstream culture [that] has become cautious, sanitized, scared of its own shadow" because of "the watchful eye of the p.c. police", protests and advertiser boycotts targeting TV shows are generally organized by right-wing religious groups campaigning against violence, sex, and depictions of homosexuality on television.[85]

Inclusive language

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Main article:Inclusive language

Inclusive or Equity Languageis alanguage stylethat avoids expressions that its proponents perceive as expressing or implying ideas that aresexist,racist,or otherwisebiased,prejudiced,or insulting to any particular group of people; and instead uses language intended to avoid offense and fulfill the ideals ofegalitarianism.This language style is sometimes referred to as a kind of "political correctness", either as a neutral description or with negative connotations by its opponents.[86]At least some supporters deny an association between the two. ( "Political correctness is focused on not offending whereas inclusive language is focused on honoring people's identities." )[87]

Satirical use

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Political correctness is oftensatirized,for example inThe PC Manifesto(1992) by Saul Jerushalmy and Rens Zbignieuw X,[88]andPolitically Correct Bedtime Stories(1994) byJames Finn Garner,which presentsfairy talesre-written from an exaggerated politically correct perspective. In 1994, the comedy filmPCUtook a look at political correctness on a college campus. Other examples include the television programPolitically Incorrect,George Carlin's "Euphemisms"routine,[citation needed]andThe Politically Correct Scrapbook.[89]The popularity of theSouth Parkcartoon program led to the creation of the term "South ParkRepublican"byAndrew Sullivan,[citation needed]and later the bookSouth Park ConservativesbyBrian C. Anderson.[90]In itsSeason 19(2015),South Parkintroduced the characterPC Principal,who embodies the principle, to poke fun at the principle of political correctness.[91][92]

The Colbert Report's hostStephen Colbertoften talked, satirically, about the "PC Police".[93][94]

Science

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See also:Politicization of science

Groups who oppose certain generally accepted scientific views aboutevolution,second-hand tobacco smoke,AIDS,global warming,raceand other politically contentious scientific matters have used the term "political correctness" to describe what they view as unwarranted rejection of their perspective on these issues by a scientific community that they believe has been corrupted by liberal politics.[95]

Right-wing political correctness

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"Political correctness" is a label typically used to describe liberal or left-wing terms and actions but rarely used for analogous attempts to mold language and behavior on the right.[96]In 2012, economistPaul Krugmanwrote that "the big threat to our discourse is right-wing political correctness, which – unlike the liberal version – has lots of power and money behind it. And the goal is very much the kind of thingOrwelltried to convey with his notion ofNewspeak:to make it impossible to talk, and possibly even think, about ideas that challenge the established order. "[22][97]Alex Nowrastehof theCato Institutereferred to the right's own version of political correctness as "patriotic correctness".[98]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^InThe New York Timesnewspaper article "The Rising Hegemony of the Politically Correct", the reporterRichard Bernsteinsaid:

    The term "politically correct", with its suggestion of Stalinist orthodoxy, is spoken more with irony and disapproval than with reverence. But, across the country the term "P.C.", as it is commonly abbreviated, is being heard more and more in debates over what should be taught at the universities.

    — The Rising Hegemony of the Politically Correct,The New York Times,28 October 1990[50]
    Bernstein also reported about a meeting of the Western Humanities Conference in Berkeley, California, on the subject of "Political Correctness and Cultural Studies that examined" what effect the pressure to conform to currently fashionable ideas is having on scholarship ".[51]

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