Nobody Is Listening To Me

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2. I'm old and "politically correct"

is how we used to identify each other, meaning that we shared liberal beliefs. You would reassure a friend that a stranger she was just meeting was "one of us," "politically correct." This was back in the 1960s and 70s. If someone expressed doubts about any kind of public person--an artist, a politician, a movie star--who had said or done something stupid, you might console her with "but she *is* politically correct."

No judgment, really; just an identifier. Now it seems to mean to most liberals, including me, something that is not rude or hurtful; labeling something p.c. just means to me that you're pissed you can't be mean about somebody to her face.