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In CORRECT, I quote:
"Oh, is that the next thing
we're going to have to be
Politically Correct about?"
That line is quoted from
memory from a New York
Times article, all about the Ah, I've pinned it down.
early meaning of the term...
PCSOURCE
My first encounter with the
term "PC" was back in 1984 or so:
I hanging around with a group of
friends -- two of whom happened
to be hairy feminists -- sitting
on the grass in a park in Ithaca.
We were doing various things.
Studying. Flying kites. I took
out a chess set.
One of the hairy feminists (who
I've known for a long time, and
often engaged in heated debate)
said: "Chess? But that's
not Politically Correct!"
I reached out with my foot and
pushed her over in exasperation. I didn't understand until
I couldn't believe she would judge later that she hadn't been
things in such a simple-minded serious about condemning me for
way. being "politically incorrect".
Really, it was a running
Someone commented "Violence, yet." in-joke between her and the
other HF in the group.
I said "Yeah, that's right, I'm
violent because I play
politically incorrect games
like chess."
The other early usage of the
term that I can remember is
from some dialog overheard in a
club, as quoted in the Village
Voice:
A man says: "I think I'm going
to ask that woman to take me
home and do me with
cigarettes."
His friend says: "I think she's
with that other woman over
there."
"So? They can both do me with
cigarettes."
"That's not only exciting, it's
also Politically Correct."
According to uncle Wikipedia:
"William Safire states that the first
recorded use of the term politically Actually, Safire was
correct in the typical modern sense never all that great at
is by Toni Cade Bambara in the 1970 distguishing a "modern
anthology The Black Woman." sense", and I need to
see this one myself to
see if I agree.
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