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In 2023, disagree heavily. Political Correctness is a way prevent open conversation and debate. The Biden admin constantly reorients attacks on them as attacks on women or the LGBT community.

Political Correctness is used to shut down criticism of the modern American State. Wars are now pitched as femininist, see afghanistan.

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That is the right wing perspective, yes. And i'm sure PC is used at times cynically to deflect real criticism, that doesn't change the origins or original meaning I described. This alongside "wokeness" is simply acknowledging how much of our everyday speech and action rob certain members of society of their voice and agency, and trying to address it. Addressing it is a hard and imprecise process, but it's worth doing imo.

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.

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