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• • • The term political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated to PC or P.C.) is used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society. Since the late 1980s, the term has come to refer to avoiding language or behavior that can be seen as, marginalizing, or insulting groups of people considered or discriminated against, especially groups defined by sex or race. In public discourse and the media, it is generally used as a, implying that these policies are excessive. The contemporary usage of the term emerged from criticism of the in the late 20th century. The phrase was widely used in the debate about 's 1987 book, and gained further currency in response to Tenured Radicals (1990), and conservative author 1991 book Illiberal Education, in which he condemned what he saw as liberal efforts to advance and through language,, and changes to the content of school and university curricula. For Against Echelons Rar there. The term was also the subject of articles in and other media throughout the 1990s.