http://www.nextwaveonline.com/comment.asp Mal Fletcher's Social Comment is a short and concise weekly comment on a hot issue or event confronting society today. http://www.nextwaveonline.com/images/nwi_rss.gif http://www.nextwaveonline.com/comment.asp en Copyright 2005 Mal Fletcher Fri, 18 Jul 2008 0:0:18 GMT 20 http://www.nextwaveonline.com/comment.asp?ID=230 Hardly a week goes by anywhere in the developed world without us reading in the press something or other about the forces of political correctness. In many places, just saying the words 'political correctness' can get you into some frightful debates, inspiring some really passionate reactions even from normally placid people! Nobody is too sure where the term "political correctness" came from, though there are versions of it in the early Communist rhetoric of both Russia and China. It referred to something that was politically "on message". Later it found its way into left-leaning publications in the West, particularly... 18 July 2008