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by mindslight 2654 days ago
It can never be defined, because the entire point of a politicized term is to carry a loaded definition that goads a fraction of the other team into agreeing. Most reasonable people do not think that "political correctness", meaning a need to conform to The Party, is a good thing. The difference lies in what types of situations the term is applied to and how much it is emphasized.