Successful political correctness involves prefacing what you mean with a list of things you don’t so people who want to complain about what you have to say can’t.
Nigel Brookson
“Political correctness”, is a term used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.
Since the late 1980s, the term has been used to describe a preference for inclusive language and avoidance of language or behaviour that can be seen as excluding, marginalising, or insulting to groups of people disadvantaged or discriminated against, particularly groups defined by ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. In public discourse and the all-powerful media, the term is generally used as a pejorative with an implication that these policies are excessive or unwarranted.
Let’s look at the origin. The phrase politically correct first appeared in the 1930s, when it was used to describe dogmatic adherence to ideology in totalitarian regimes, such as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
Early usage of the term ‘politically correct’ by leftists in the 1970s and 1980s was as self-critical satire, usage was ironic, rather than a name 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 modern pejorative usage of the term emerged from conservative criticism of the New Left in the late 20th century, with many describing it as a form of censorship.
The term political correctness first appeared in Marxist–Leninist vocabulary following the Russian Revolution of 1917. At that time, it was used to describe strict adherence to the policies and principles of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, that is, the party line. Later in the United States, the phrase came to be associated with accusations of dogmatism in debates between communists and socialists. According to American educator Herbert Kohl, writing about debates in New York in the late 1940s and early 1950s.