Perhaps true in your experience but not true in general. In the 90s and 2000s for example people would talk about how they couldn't make certain jokes/comments

Perhaps true in your experience but not true in general. In the 90s and 2000s for example people would talk about how they couldn't make certain jokes/comments they would like to make because of "Political correctness gone mad"[1]. That wasn't even new then, for example Allan Bloom's bestselling book "The Closing of the American Mind" from 1987[2] where he claims that cultural relativism and political correctness in academia stifles open debate about ideas. Sounds like something you could literally just republish today as the conversation hasn't really changed much. [1] Here's an article from 2016 chronicling the rise of the phrase over 25 years before that. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/political-correctness-how-the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/political-co... . If you search for that phrase you will find a treasure trove of exactly the same sorts of outrage we see today, only now the phrase "political correctness" is replaced with "cancel culture" or "wokeness". [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mi...