Or also you never have to work for a manager who openly respects others more because of their race or gender. A wide variety of things apply this way. A sane amount of political correctness allows the meritocracy I want in a workplace.

That's not political correctness. I'm talking about a culture of fear around discussing topics like algorithmic bias.

BTW: A manager who's secretly a racist is still a racist. PC doesn't make this any better.

On the other hand, if one is not of the viewpoint labeled as politically correct, then prepare to be ostracized in a very passive aggressive way. Not that I mind much, but passive aggressiveness is annoying. E.g. mentioning anything that smacks of religion, or discussing guns, or expressing skepticism that we modern people are the smartest thing since sliced bread.

Worth noting that "political correctness" is a phrase created to lampoon/insult the irrational political groupthink of Communism, and was later converted into an indictment of progressive liberal values.

Saying "some political correctness okay" is equivalent to saying either "some irrational groupthink is okay", or "some cultural marxism is okay". What's worse than this general confusion, is then implying that it's the same thing as caring about human rights or the right not to be discriminated against. Thus it makes caring about human rights something to be ridiculed. But only when you defend the use of the term.

The term "political correctness" is only an insult. Defending it at all is like defending some insult you're given on a playground.

  "You're a poop head!"
  "Yeah, well... I *want* to be a poop head!"

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/historical-origin-p...