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In reply to the discussion: 'Political correctness' used to be known as 'good manners' [View all]Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Words that were once acceptable become unacceptable. And yes, sometimes it gets carried to extreme, but that's just how it goes. Seems to me that the term 'Politically Correct' is just an attempt to find a phrase that refers to the changing of the language.
Think about the words that have fallen out of favor in our everyday language.
WARNING: UNACCEPTABLE LANGUAGE TO FOLLOW!!
kike, spic, dago, beaner, fag, chink, wop, kraut, boy (when referring to a black male)
And on and on. Some words have become so stigmatized that you almost never hear them even written down, instead they are euphemized as in 'the N-word'.
And sometimes PC is carried to extremes. But the point is, by and large it is PC to refer to people by whatever appellation they prefer at the moment.