Political Correctness Originated From The Soviet Union
The zig zag pattern of “acceptable” speech is hard to follow on purpose
“How do large numbers of people suddenly come to adopt the same view on an issue that, until recently, no one cared about?”
— Rob Henderson, “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom”
It’s getting hard to know what to say. Or at least it appears that way nowadays because the line of what’s “offensive” keeps changing. The acceptable phrase of today is banished tomorrow.
It’s a confusing new problem. Although, this isn’t exactly the case; the issue has existed for at least a hundred years.
It was everyday life after the revolution in Russia and China. According to blogger Rob Henderson in his piece mentioned above, there was such thing as a “correct opinion,” and it shifted constantly on purpose.
This was the birth of political correctness. According to Henderson:
“The term “political correctness” was first used in 1917 by Marxist-Leninist devotees following the Russian Revolution. It was used to describe adherence to the policies and principles of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In other words, the party line.”
