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Laura Miller
Books and culture columnist for Slate. Contributor to the New Yorker, Harper’s, the Guardian, New York Times Book Review. Author of THE MAGICIAN’S BOOK.
The concept of political correctness began in the 1980s
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This isn’t technically accurate. People who participated in the New Left of the ’60s and ’70s have said that it was used unironically for some time and in reference to Marxist ideology before it was applied ironically to identitarian statements.

  • Go to the profile of Laura Miller

    Laura Miller

    Books and culture columnist for Slate. Contributor to the New Yorker, Harper’s, the Guardian, New York Times Book Review. Author of THE MAGICIAN’S BOOK.