And if there was a referendum: "Political correctness should be dismantled", I guess most people would vote "Hell yeah!".
So much for democracy.
So much for democracy.
Ending "political correctness" might be unpopular in principle, but I doubt any specific proposal for how to dismantle it would be popular.
How would you even do that? You can't force people to not be offended by something.
It's an old term, and has been used in it's current form since the 1970's. I remember it's usage in media in the 80s, before the commercial internet.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=politically+co...
> It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences.
> Further, an optical illusion comes with the dominance of the minority: a naive observer would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority.
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...