No, they don't. I think they have differing views of it, just like those who have less negative view of it. Some of them are alt-SJW snowflakes who are upset at being viewed as less polite for their language use. Some seem to conflate PC with the "war on Christmas" or "the war on _____ism" (fill in the blank). Some of them simply view PC as a way to insult those with whom they disagree. And, I am sure there are even more gradations of their views.
It isn't. It appears to be derived from an ancient Celtic word "uolco" that meant "hawk"; the modern Welsh spelling is "gwalch". There were Celtic communities using that name all over Europe in the first millennium BC; in Latin it became a common generic word for Celts; Germans got it from Latin and used it as a generic word for Romans, presumably because most of the people of the Roman Empire they encountered were Celtic so that's what the Germans heard them calling themselves. So of course when the Saxons conquered Roman Britain, they used their word for "Roman" to refer to the Britons. The circumstance that Germans also called Walloons and Wallachians "Romans" doesn't make it unkind to call Celts by the Celtic name of a Celtic tribe.
An awful lot of progressives think so, entirely because they like to think so. But it isn't true. "Politically correct" used to be a term of art in Marxist circles. The hard left said it unselfconsciously, referring to views they saw as being the correct views to hold for political reasons. The ideologically impure left got fed up with the orthodox left trying to stifle debate among the left and bully them into conformity, and they took up using "politically correct" sarcastically, as a put-down of Marxist narrow-mindedness and an expression of their own commitment to accepting diversity of opinion. The concept spread by osmosis from the non-doctrinaire leftists to centrists, and eventually to rightists. Of course centrists and rightists use it to refer to a considerably less specialized orthodoxy than the one the Marxists were pushing. From a point of view outside the left, an awful lot of the non-Marxist left come off about as dogmatic as orthodox Marxists come off from the point of view of a typical leftist.
You also know who used words and terms and phrases....An awful lot of progressives think so, entirely because they like to think so. But it isn't true. "Politically correct" used to be a term of art in Marxist circles. The hard left said it unselfconsciously, referring to views they saw as being the correct views to hold for political reasons. The ideologically impure left got fed up with the orthodox left trying to stifle debate among the left and bully them into conformity, and they took up using "politically correct" sarcastically, as a put-down of Marxist narrow-mindedness and an expression of their own commitment to accepting diversity of opinion. The concept spread by osmosis from the non-doctrinaire leftists to centrists, and eventually to rightists. Of course centrists and rightists use it to refer to a considerably less specialized orthodoxy than the one the Marxists were pushing. From a point of view outside the left, an awful lot of the non-Marxist left come off about as dogmatic as orthodox Marxists come off from the point of view of a typical leftist.As a progressive liberal, I certainly like to think so.
There is common decency and then there is political correctness that demands that people deny reality.
So, was the effort to stop calling black people "niggers" an example of common decency or political correctness" Was the effort to stop calling Jews "kikes" an example of common decency or "political correctness"? And how does one distinguish between the two in real time?
Do you have any reason for believing that, other than that you personally first heard it from the right wing? The hot air you are exposed to is not the totality of American political discourse.
