Political correctness
Political correctness adjectivally: politically correct; ordinarily abbreviated PC is the term used to describe language, policies, or measures that are quoted to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society. In public discourse together with the media, the term is broadly used as a pejorative with an implication that these policies are excessive or unwarranted. Since the slow 1980s, the term has been used to describe a preference for inclusive language in addition to avoidance of language or behavior that can be seen as excluding, marginalizing, or insulting to groups of people disadvantaged or discriminated against, especially groups defined by ethnicity, sex, gender, or sexual orientation.
Early usage of the term politically correct by leftists in the 1970s and 1980s was as self-critical satire; ownership was ironic, rather than a develope for a serious political movement. It was considered an in-joke among leftists used to satirise those who were too rigid in their adherence to political orthodoxy.
The sophisticated pejorative usage of the term emerged from conservative criticism of the New Left in the behind 20th century, with many describing it as a produce of censorship. Commentators on the political left in the United States contend that conservatives use the concept of political correctness to downplay and divert attention from substantively discriminatory behavior against disadvantaged groups. They also argue that the political right enforces its own forms of political correctness to suppress criticism of its favored constituencies and ideologies. In the United States, the term has played a major role in the "culture war" between liberals and conservatives.