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Of course people are against political correctness. It's almost exclusively used as a pejorative term. People who support behaviors that other people would lab

• jordigh 8y ago
  Hell, the modern usage of the word was coined as a pejorative term: > The contemporary pejorative usage of the term emerged from conservative criticism of the New Left in the late 20th century. This usage was popularized by a number of articles in The New York Times and other media throughout the 1990s,[12][13][14][15][16][17] and was widely used in the debate about Allan Bloom's 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind,[7][9][18][19] and gained further currency in response to Roger Kimball's Tenured Radicals (1990),[7][9][20][21] and conservative author Dinesh D'Souza's 1991 book Illiberal Education, in which he condemned what he saw as liberal efforts to advance self-victimization and multiculturalism through language, affirmative action, and changes to the content of school and university curricula.[7][8][20][22] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
  • extra88 8y ago
    Yes, my understanding in the 90s was the term was used in some leftist/progressive circles sarcastically [0] but was latched on to by their critics as if it was meant sincerely. I'm sure some young people on college campuses at the time happily adopted the sincere use. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness#1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness#1970s