[throwaway287391]

> I think people have been conditioned to see "political correctness" as something bad, and have different views of what it means.

> I think this is a result of an intense propaganda campaign on the right that has distorted the meaning of political correctness.

I haven't looked up the etymology, but I've always assumed the term has been pejorative/satirical/tongue-in-cheek since its inception. Think about it -- it implies there's a different form of "correctness" that isn't actually "correct", but merely "politically correct" -- i.e. correct only in the context of overly carefully worded political pandering. I can't imagine somebody unironically choosing to describe their own speech as "politically correct".

[mklingen]

What I mean is that the definition of what counts as "politically correct" has expanded to include lots of stuff. It's such a nebulous term that it can be applied to anything the reader dislikes.

[mc32]

But hasn’t that come to be because activists want to broaden and redefine what is not politically correct? Most people do not want to broaden the term, on the other hand there are people who want to make specific topics and utterances unacceptable things as mundane as stereotypes. Of course _some_ stereotypes are malicious, but many are simply lazyness. Some people would rather suppress data if it counters an agenda, etc.

[throwaway287391]

Oh sure -- the right has weaponized the term pretty effectively, no arguments there.