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History[edit]

First recorded usage[edit]

In 1793, the term "politically correct" appeared in a U.S. Supreme Court judgment of a political-lawsuit.^[1]^[2] By 1798 the term was used in Britain to discuss the public opinion^[3], by 1804 it was being used in contexts such as below:

In your paper on Monday [...] you offered some observations to your readers which were evidently well-meant though they were not politically correct^[4]

while by 1810 it was employed in literary criticism^[5] and in the debates in British Parliament^[6]. The term "politically correct" was used in the U.S. in print from 1832^[7] and the very term "political correctness" from 1833 onwards^[8]. By the 1860s the terms have entered Australian political debates.^[9]

William Safire claims that the first recorded use of the term in the modern sense is by Toni Cade in the 1970 anthology The Black Woman.^[10]

WWI[edit]

During post-WWI occupation German papers were suspended for accusing "French colored Colonial troops" and for having "employed certain terms and expressions which they might better have omitted" due to the current political climate of "exaggerated accusations" against these colored troops and the paucity of independent sources^[11].

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^ In the 18th century, the term "politically correct" occurs in the case of Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 419 (1793), wherein the term meant "in line with prevailing political thought or policy". In that legal case, the term correct was applied literally, with no reference to socially offensive language; thus the comments of Associate Justice James Wilson, of the U.S. Supreme Court: "The states, rather than the People, for whose sakes the States exist, are frequently the objects which attract and arrest our principal attention... Sentiments and expressions of this inaccurate kind prevail in our common, even in our convivial, language. Is a toast asked? 'The United States', instead of the 'People of the United States', is the toast given. This is not politically correct." Chisholm v State of GA, 2 US 419 (1793) Findlaw.com – Accessed 6 February 2007.
^ Flower, Newmas (2006). The Journals of Arnold Bennett. READ BOOKS. ISBN 978-1-4067-1047-2.
^ Stephens, Alexander; Phillips, Sir Richard (1798-01-01). British public characters of 1798. Printed for R. Phillips, ... and sold by Lee and Hurst, ... Carpenter and Co. ... R.H. Westley, ... and all booksellers. That his Lordship was either morally or politically correct, in an opinion which tended to perpetuate political incapacities on account of religious tenets, would, perhaps, be difficult to prove...
^ August 18, 1804. "(London) Courier". p. 2. In your paper on Monday [...] you offered some observations to your readers which were evidently well-meant though they were not politically correct{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "The Examiner". 19 August 1810. Retrieved 2015-11-29 – via British Newspaper Archive. Yet, if "he is a good master and a good family man, and continues as politically correct in his writings as he has been of late years", we will even pardon him for "his affectation of weakness"...
^ "London Star". April 27, 1811. [Hear hear, hear!] I do not contend that such a sentiment is politically correct. All I contend is, that such a sentiment does exist, and that it will continue.
^ "Indianapolis Indiana Journal". p. 3. ...if it is either politically or morally correct to reduce a whole nation to poverty for the benefit of a few... {{cite news}}: line feed character in |quote= at position 12 (help)
^ "Washington Globe". May 16, 1833. p. 3. We are so well pleased with the good sense, spirit and political correctness of the following editorial in the last Dayton Whig
^ "Australian Mail And New Zealand Express". newspaperarchive.com. 1861-06-15. Retrieved 2015-11-29. For to call it " a new colony " is only politically correct - the stress should be laid on the word "colony".
^ Safire, William (2008). Safire's political dictionary (Rev. ed.). New York [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0195343342.
^ "Finds Negro troops orderly on Rhine". New York Times. 20 February 1921. Finds Negro troops orderly on Rhine Charges are German Propaganda 'Especially for America' 66 actual crimes known [...] [Newspapers] Rheinishe Zeitung and the Kolnische Volkszeitung ... employed certain terms and expressions which they might better have omitted... Undoubtedly many cases have occurred where many girls or women have been assaulted by of the French colored Colonial troops... cases which were not included in official figures... {{cite news}}: line feed character in |quote= at position 36 (help)

[1] In the 18th century, the term "politically correct" occurs in the case of Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 419 (1793), wherein the term meant "in line with prevailing political thought or policy". In that legal case, the term correct was applied literally, with no reference to socially offensive language; thus the comments of Associate Justice James Wilson, of the U.S. Supreme Court: "The states, rather than the People, for whose sakes the States exist, are frequently the objects which attract and arrest our principal attention... Sentiments and expressions of this inaccurate kind prevail in our common, even in our convivial, language. Is a toast asked? 'The United States', instead of the 'People of the United States', is the toast given. This is not politically correct." Chisholm v State of GA, 2 US 419 (1793) Findlaw.com – Accessed 6 February 2007.

[2] Flower, Newmas (2006). The Journals of Arnold Bennett. READ BOOKS. ISBN 978-1-4067-1047-2.

[3] Stephens, Alexander; Phillips, Sir Richard (1798-01-01). British public characters of 1798. Printed for R. Phillips, ... and sold by Lee and Hurst, ... Carpenter and Co. ... R.H. Westley, ... and all booksellers. That his Lordship was either morally or politically correct, in an opinion which tended to perpetuate political incapacities on account of religious tenets, would, perhaps, be difficult to prove...

[4] August 18, 1804. "(London) Courier". p. 2. In your paper on Monday [...] you offered some observations to your readers which were evidently well-meant though they were not politically correct{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[5] "The Examiner". 19 August 1810. Retrieved 2015-11-29 – via British Newspaper Archive. Yet, if "he is a good master and a good family man, and continues as politically correct in his writings as he has been of late years", we will even pardon him for "his affectation of weakness"...

[6] "London Star". April 27, 1811. [Hear hear, hear!] I do not contend that such a sentiment is politically correct. All I contend is, that such a sentiment does exist, and that it will continue.

[7] "Indianapolis Indiana Journal". p. 3. ...if it is either politically or morally correct to reduce a whole nation to poverty for the benefit of a few... {{cite news}}: line feed character in |quote= at position 12 (help)

[8] "Washington Globe". May 16, 1833. p. 3. We are so well pleased with the good sense, spirit and political correctness of the following editorial in the last Dayton Whig

[9] "Australian Mail And New Zealand Express". newspaperarchive.com. 1861-06-15. Retrieved 2015-11-29. For to call it " a new colony " is only politically correct - the stress should be laid on the word "colony".

[10] Safire, William (2008). Safire's political dictionary (Rev. ed.). New York [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0195343342.

[:0-11] "Finds Negro troops orderly on Rhine". New York Times. 20 February 1921. Finds Negro troops orderly on Rhine Charges are German Propaganda 'Especially for America' 66 actual crimes known [...] [Newspapers] Rheinishe Zeitung and the Kolnische Volkszeitung ... employed certain terms and expressions which they might better have omitted... Undoubtedly many cases have occurred where many girls or women have been assaulted by of the French colored Colonial troops... cases which were not included in official figures... {{cite news}}: line feed character in |quote= at position 36 (help)

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