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- From: jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews)
- Subject: Re: New group proposal: alt.conservative.forum
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.011946.3032@cs.sfu.ca>
- Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <BzCu8L.EA8@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec19.132340.5127@dorsai.com> <BzKJH6.Az9@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:19:46 GMT
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- In article <BzKJH6.Az9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wiggins@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Wiggins) writes:
- >>: It seems to me that "politically correct" was a term originated by the
- >>: Marxists, and was used to describe their own internally acceptable thoughts
- >>: and ideas. I'll have to do some digging and get back to you.
- >>I read that it was Feminists.
- >...or maybe Marxist Feminists.
-
- You're all wrong. "Politically correct" was a term of
- gentle teasing and self-effacing humour used by left-wing
- activists of all sorts, until it was appropriated by the likes
- of George Will, Barbara Amiel, and Rush Limbaugh, and turned
- into a rather nasty, and humourless, insult.
-
- --Jamie.
-