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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

Lynda wrote:

> So, it isn't errors in Carter's book, it is folks that want history written 
> their way and get bent out of shape when someone doesn't stick with the 
> current PC version of history.
>
> Lynda, who hates to have to agree with Bill, yuck, yuck, yuck <g>
You seem to be using the expression "PC" in a way that I'm not familiar 
with.

The first time I heard it, it was from John Nieto, an acquaintance from 
the late '70s.  He was quite the radical back then, before settling into 
a deathstyle as a closeted priest.  Anyway, he told me that "PC" was the 
latest term (back then) for characterizing candidates who had all the 
"correct" views: pro-abortion, pro-immigration, pro-gun control, 
pro-welfare, pro-Gay rights, pro-legalization, etc.  This is definitely 
the complex of values that conservatives intend, when they refer to 
political correctness.

In your usage, it seems to mean something that has been the accepted 
view all along, like something you'd read in your dad's old history 
books  This is quite different, since people like John (the old one) 
were decidedly paddling against the current.

Bill
S. Oregon coast