Etymology

conservative correctness

Today it means: A manner of action and rhetoric that is inoffensive to rightists. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by John Wilson, author of The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education (1995), as a response to political correctness.

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