When "Politically Correct" Flipped Sides

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Sep 19, 2026 · 25m

Politically correct" didn't start on campus in the 1990s — it started in Marxist-Leninist party vocabulary, where being correct meant matching the party line, not being polite. This episode traces the phrase's full arc: its migration into feminist and New Left circles as semi-ironic insider talk, its detonation as a national scandal around 1990–91, and the moment ownership flipped so completely that the people it described abandoned it. Then the conversation turns to the live debate over gendered language — pronouns, "pregnant people," "chestfeeding" — and the argument that constant…