text_combined: politically correct summary wed 21 sep 1994 posted following query vol 5 1022 rex sprouse wrote terms politics discussion term informant think united states seen kind orwellian development use term politically correct pejorative term based dim personal recollections sense latter term politically correct first surfaced english maoist literature used straight face since correctness viewed like everything else subject constant definition redefinition party recall feeling worldview implicit phrase contradictory democratic ideals person accepted political authority truth could possibly use without ironic intent anyone concrete data history politically loaded expression received replies eight people reproduce apologize long delay publishing mark mandel dragon systems inc speech recognition 1 617 9655200 320 nevada st newton mass 02160 usa mark dragonsys com p document dictated dragondictate v2 0 first heard pc relevant sense one two possibly three places hartford courant new york times chicago sun times story relating incident job applicant interviewed job denied question affirmative action helped explain matters demanded see relevant materials inquired significance comment written bottom corner application pc conservative came meant politically correct whether legal action nt know best recollections story read years ago nt know whether pc deny pc pc invert current meaning deny makes sense cleared broach matter superiors nt free country steven term seems entered common use anglophone canada first social democrat teasing maoists stalinists pomposity correct analysis could used way correct analysis comrade agree could said socialists course totalitarian left never got joke politically correct safe company still used democratic left selfmockery politically correct fruit salad tonight _ _ california grapes term seems become pejorative taken people incapable seeing comic side ideals notice today american right uses term pejorative term virtually notion kind ethical motivation right derides maoism ideology classical liberal democracy society redefinition occur party running oneparty state free open exchange ideas ethical concerns well pragmatic concerns relevant rex sprouse whose comment prompted original question mam imagine list going inundated opinions political correctness interesting see linguistics community feels issue young enough completely unaware connection term maoism tell however currently used college campuses certain groups ironic intention nowadays politically correct anything particularly language sexist racist heterosexist lookist ageist ableist etc groups fighting isms tend use term quite straightforwardly refer believe accepted way seems current situation mr sprouse mentioned resulted nearfascist enforcement tactics special interest groups mangling language pc results rather historic reasons benjamin moore japan electronic dictionary research institute ltd kawasaki japan ben edr5r edr co jp years ago reading krushchev secret speech denounced stalin first time 1956 communist party congress noticed use term russian could translated politically correct denouncing stalin krushchev maintained belief politically correct stalin obviously nt mark mandel inquiry origins politically correct ric dolphin politically correct 1992 confirms mark belief term originated thoughts mao tse tung dolphin states first use u angela davis 1971 argued could opposing argument issue one correct side 1975 thenpresident national organization women said organization moving intellectually politically correct direction 1971 quotation seems confirm mark view accept political authority quest truth could use term ironic intent first heard pc politically correct early 80s used wryly humorously people trying live lives modicum independence agribusiness consumption fossil fuel really sorry see turned gentle humor grim tool become hands demagogues f karttunen v dear mark nt know term politically correct first entered english etymology give would certainly consistent experience back early 80s knew politically correct term leftists might use poke fun whose putatively leftist politics seemed doctrinaire later various writers commentators politicians hostile left seized term used seriously words leftists us applied term without irony something inside leftwing joke turned weapon brandished left example 1982 say leftist might blown steam dogmatic person organization characterizing politically correct hear term used nonleftists often evoke image rigid leftist multiculturalist academic types taking institutions seeking control minds move afoot left much power point politically correct ever regains ironic connotation perhaps word makes fun political right example sometimes hear people call commie pinko manner whose real intent make fun prejudices anticommunists could imagine politically correct might one day used similarly sincerely seth