The phantom of political correctness
I thought political correctness was a term that died out some time in the late 2000s. Apparently the right-wingers who co-opted the term stubbornly refuse to let go of it - or maybe it's just twitter being stupid again. Either way, we're halfway through the 2010s and people are still proudly labelling themselves as un-PC. I use this as a dickface litmus test - if you describe yourself as un-PC on the internet, where Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory already applies, I've already written you off as an asshole. And no, this isn't because I'm a PC Nazi, a tumblrina or a social justice warriorwankerthing. It's to do with definitions, or rather how rigid those definitions are. So I'm going to quote the first two definitions I found by googling "political correctness". Admire my scientific rigour! First up, we have Merriam-Webster's definitions for "politically correct" (which seems to turn up more often than "political correct...