The Origins of Political Correctness

[BloodEclipse]

Tonight my curiosity got the best of me and I had to do some research to find out when and how "Political Correctness" got started. I found this speech by Bill Lind and thought I would share it.
The answer might surprise you.

Full speech: http://www.academia.org/lectures/lind1.html

W[SIZE=+0]here does all this stuff that you’ve heard about this morning – the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it – where does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think. They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic.

[SIZE=+0]We have seen other countries, particularly in this century, where this has been the case. And we have always regarded them with a mixture of pity, and to be truthful, some amusement, because it has struck us as so strange that people would allow a situation to develop where they would be afraid of what words they used. But we now have this situation in this country. We have it primarily on college campuses, but it is spreading throughout the whole society. Were does it come from? What is it? [SIZE=+0]We call it "Political Correctness." The name originated as something of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of it as only half-serious. In fact, it’s deadly serious. It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious.
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[4sarge]

Great Read - Repped

 

[96harley]

So true. I posted on a law enforcement website a few days ago. This guy goes off he deep end. Evidently he is entitled to his opinion but I am not. Never mind I'll continue to voice my opinion.

 

[right winger]

 

[ATF Consumer]

It is clearly being used to shut down views and opinions that they don't want seen or heard.