P.C. of course is short for Political Correctness and the term is often tossed about in a derisive manner. It as many meanings, sometimes it is about the things you are not allowed to questions, sometimes it is about simply recognizing that human being come in a bewildering assortment of flavors and that there is no one correct way of being a person. In one of it’s most common manifestations the concept is expressed in the re-naming of things, positions, or ideas. What was once perfectly acceptable falls out of fashion and is replaced with a new term usually meant to carry greater consideration and less negative connotation, such as Trash Collector transforming into Sanitation Engineer even though no advanced degrees are involved.

What I find fascinating is that every stripe of political division has their natural P.C. and like rebellion it is only wrong in the third person. When others employ it the technique in never called being politically correct but the intent is the same. Consider the difference between the terms ‘mercenary’ versus Private Military Contractor. That may be a little obscure consider instead Pro-Life vs. Anti-Abortion, Rich vs. Job Creators, Torture vs. Enhanced Interrogation, examples are nearly endless.

No matter where you fall on the political spectrum you employ various shades and colors of your own P.C. and bristle when others fail to utilize the terms you prefer.