Gunner Asch on Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:02:15 -0800 typed in alt.survival the following:
The Origin of Political Correctness
>Accuracy in Academia | November 18, 2016 | Malcolm A. Kline
>
>If you wonder where the politically correct malady that afflicts
>America came from, Boston University professor emeritus Angelo M.
>Codevilla has the answer.
>
>"The notion of political correctness came into use among Communists in
>the 1930s as a semi-humorous reminder that the Party's interest is to
>be treated as a reality that ranks above reality itself," Dr.
>Codevilla writes in the Fall 2016 issue of the Claremont Review of >Books.
>
>Dr. Codevilla indicates that the politically correct directive began
>word-of-mouth as a running joke that communists told each other that >went like this:
>
> "Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect."
>
> "Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
"I am Ideologically Orthodox, complying with the one true and only correct analysis of the dialectical tensions of historical materialism"
"You are merely Doctrinaire - relying upon a failure to correctly implement the full dialectical analysis of the correct Marxist-Leninist-"
"He/she/it are merely politically correct - engaging in mere propagandizing of the masses due to no ability to even understand the correct dialectical methods."