Quote Originally Posted by dancj View Post
Political correctness at its heart, is not criticising people for being female/gay/black/short/fat/disabled or whatever. It's a shame that a few people in the 80s took it to the extreme of avoiding ever using words like "black" or "fat", but the intention is good, and the outcome has been broadly good since then. The world is much more tolerant than it was back then.

It's a shame that some people feel the need to see progress as a bad thing.
Quoted for truth.