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The two PC terms are not related. In the start of the last century political correctness was about the correct adherence to ideology. The modern PC is a descri
by tokai 4y ago
The two PC terms are not related. In the start of the last century political correctness was about the correct adherence to ideology. The modern PC is a describer coined by us conservatives to label progressive political goals.
- abecedarius 4y agoI guess I'll weigh in with my lived experience as a teenager at the time of the interview. I would've told you (maybe a few years later) "political correctness" in the U.S. started as an ironic term among lefty types with a sense of humor about their own milieu, which resonated more widely and got taken as ammunition and shortened to "PC" by more righty culture warriors. I think this was originally a kind of joke but referencing a real phenomenon in soviet-style regimes. Like http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html Now just how much this Western lefty culture was influenced by deliberate influence ops, that's the question I was hoping to learn about from this interview.
- fortuna86 4y ago> I would've told you (maybe a few years later) "political correctness" in the U.S. started as an ironic term among lefty types with a sense of humor about their own milieu, which resonated more widely and got taken as ammunition and shortened to "PC" by more righty culture warriors. Similar to "woke". A term used with semi-seriousness, later coopted and weaponized by political opponents.
- stuckinhell 4y agoActually they are very related. Political Correctness in the soviet union was very similar to what we have today. The "Girl Boss" stuff pushed by Sheryl Sandberg is eerily similar to Stalin's "New Soviet Woman".