The term politically correct is a reactionary term ... created by people who were worried by [social] changes…that affected their everyday understanding of the world in ways that pointed out their role in creating or reproducing dominance and subordination.

the indignation people feel against PC ideas reflects the discomfort we feel when language and politics begin to pull away from the dominant values we grew up with—in other words, white, middle-class values.

in its original context, PC was a pejorative term used by people who felt they were losing something. many sociologists and historians today have come to a consensus on what they call it: it’s a loss of privilege—and in terms of race, a loss of white privilege.

you realize of course that crying racist over everything only means the term loses all meaning.

Political Correctness was just something invented by some leftist university types who took pride in being able to excoriate their "enemies" for using "insensitive language"

In my experience, when someone says "I'm not going to be politically correct about this", what they really mean is "I intend to be rude and inconsiderate, and I don't care what you think about it."

Or maybe they just prefer saying Merry Christmas instead of the politically correct happy holidays.