Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)
by dragonwriter on Saturday May 23, 2020 @08:07PM
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> The PC movement began well before the 1980s.
There's no such thing as “the PC movement”; every ideological movement has ideas of correct usage of terminology related to the ideas that motivate the movement, the term “political correctness” has been used as a derogatory term for different of those ideas among different and unrelated ideological movements at different times. (e.g., in the 1930s-1950s it was used in a New York times article describing Nazi drive for uniformity in expressed ideas, as well as by American Socialists attacking the American Communists.)
However, attacks against expression of anti-sexist and anti-racist ideas as “political correctness” by the same segment of the American Right has been extremely popular twice, the first in the 1980s-1990s, and the second we're in right now.
There's no such thing as “the PC movement”; every ideological movement has ideas of correct usage of terminology related to the ideas that motivate the movement, the term “political correctness” has been used as a derogatory term for different of those ideas among different and unrelated ideological movements at different times. (e.g., in the 1930s-1950s it was used in a New York times article describing Nazi drive for uniformity in expressed ideas, as well as by American Socialists attacking the American Communists.)
However, attacks against expression of anti-sexist and anti-racist ideas as “political correctness” by the same segment of the American Right has been extremely popular twice, the first in the 1980s-1990s, and the second we're in right now.