Politically correct just means polite

By Kathleen Vallee Stein
“That’s not politically correct,” a co-worker said snidely.
I first heard that term about 25 years ago in a staff meeting.The offender had said something about an ethnic group and the supposedly nasty food they ate.
When I first heard the words “politically correct,” I took it to mean that people watched what they said about other people in what we used to call “polite society.”
Along came Donald Trump, proudly proclaiming that h