[gizmo686]

>The irony of this post when you will get reported and hellbanned for questioning libertarianism on HN.

When has this happened?

>As for "political correctness" it was a term that was first popularised by the right to attack college activism and shut down people challenging the status quo.

Actually, it was a term first popularized by the socialists, to attack the communists.

[dreamfactored]

...and hellbanned again for comments in this thread actually. HN doesn't like disturbances to the appearance of right libertarian consensus it would seem.

(That's completely fine in the context of a private community with its own specific set of values but it should be clearly advertised so that participants understand it's not a wider consensus in the world at large and that they aren't getting anything like an open discussion with a range of views.)

[abecedarius]

I had the impression it started as a kind of joke among progressives in the 70s or so, a ha-ha-only-serious one. Later their opponents appropriated it, in the 80s when I started paying attention.

[dreamfactor]

> When has this happened?

Happened to me a few months back.

> Actually, it was a term first popularized by the socialists, to attack the communists.

I'm talking about it becoming popularised in contemporary politics. We can all google that it was rebirthed in 87. The reason I know this though is that I remember seeing it coming into common currency after it was repeatedly being used as a hot button term by the GH Bush election campaign team in 88. This was talked about in the broadsheets at the time.