07-05-2014, 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by donquixote99
'Political Correctness' is an abstract term...hard to point at something and say 'that's it.' The most usual usage, I think, is sort of 'language use that avoids showing a 'lack of sympathy,' or even animosity, to the sensitivities of persons discriminated-against.' Sometime, 'persons discriminated against' morphs into 'persons making radical social criticisms and claiming sensitivity based on their particular POV.'
A wider usage encompasses other enforcement of some political orthodoxy, beyond choices in usage of language.
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