Soviet "political correctness" was about protecting the state from any criticism, American "political correctness" is about understanding systems of oppression from the standpoint of the oppressed.
Couldn't be more different.
Couldn't be more different.
Political Correctness is used to shut down criticism of the modern American State. Wars are now pitched as femininist, see afghanistan.
If even it engenders a near constant stream of culture war backlash. America wasn't great for far too many Americans in the past, that needs to change.