I 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"

I 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.