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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 correct in the           Actually, Safire was
                    typical modern sense is by Toni      never all that great at
                    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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