Because the conservatives whose formative years were during the heyday of right-wing complaints about &quot;political correctness&quot; in the 1980s are now at the age where they are the main body of the experienced leadership of the faction, and they lack the creativity to come up with different complaints than the ones they grew up marinating in.<p>To the extent that hypersensitivity is <i>real</i>, its always been there. Its &quot;come to the forefront&quot; because a certain political faction has chosen to cherry-pick, exaggerate, and sometimes outright fabricate examples of it that occur opposing them to characterize all opposition to their ideas, resurrecting a pattern (and label) that the same faction engaged used for the same purpose in the past.