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No being one inclined to spend half an hour trying to decipher egg-headed pontification, I just want to know where the term "political correctness" came from? I first heard it in 1986, when I was stationed in Germany. Some new guy, just in from Stateside, told me it was all the rage back in The World. Even then, as a hormonally charged, skirt chasing and beer swilling 21-year old, I remember thinking it sounded like Orwell.

Lind's article is well worth the read especially if you have kids approaching college age. I ran across it about 15 years ago. He's also written some essays on the coming next civil war which will put ethnic groups against each other.

Lind used to co-host a TV show called The Next Revolution with Brad Keena {Janet Parshalls brother IIRC} and they would get into some real good discussions.

To answer your question it came from Marxist which Columbia University invited here in the 1930's after Hitler booted them from Germany. They came here to take over our government via our education system. Read it. It's a good article and he gives good details.

An historical side note: the first time I heard the phrase "hate speech" was in the early 70s. It was used in a discussion of some issue or other by a member of the Socialist Worker's Party, a Trotskyist aligning Marxist group.

At the time I laughed seeing how a Marxist, of all people, was calling for the suppression of "hate speech" (what else to they engage in?), and the implications for free speech. I am not laughing now.

Nah...I don't have time to read long-winded academic articles. If I can't find the answer to the question I have -- which is to say when and where the term "political correctness" come into popular usage (sometime in the 1980s) -- right off the bat, then I have no interest in a lecture on stuff I already learned in college.

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