answer:The term “political correctness” was invented by right-wing US intellectuals during the height of the third-wave feminist domination of academia during the 1980s. It was used as a way of dismissing calls for denormalizing language which had traditionally been used to reinforce gender roles (fisherman, fireman, policeman, waitress, et al.). It was a classic bait-and-switch scheme in which changing, for example, “fireman” to “firefighter” was equivocated with something ridiculous like history/herstory or manhole/personhole. What’s interesting about the term “political correctness” is that it actually occurs far more often on the rigid and reactionary right than it ever did even on the farthest extremes of second-wave “all men are rapists” feminism, and as a result has in many causes been co-opted by the very people it was invented to be used against as a way of decrying conservative dogma. Even I—a raging, unreconstructed and unapologetic anarchist revolutionary—have used the term PC occasionally, generally to refer to sacrosanct bourgeois sensibilities over language (such as referring to cops as “peace officers”).