"The modern pejorative usage of the term emerged from conservative criticism of the New Left in the late 20th century. Commentators on the political left in the United States contend that conservatives use the concept of political correctness to downplay and divert attention from substantively discriminatory behavior against disadvantaged groups.[15][16][17] They also argue that the political right enforces its own forms of political correctness to suppress criticism of its favored constituencies and ideologies.[18][19][20] In the United States, the term has played a major role in the "culture war" between liberals and conservatives." It is not "politically correct" to kneel a sports venues when the national anthem is being played. It is not "politically correct" to refuse to say the pledge of allegiance. It is not "politically correct" to point out that racism and sexism still exist in America.

What are you talking about? I learned about John C Calhoun and Jefferson Davis in US History classes I took in high school and college.

@@tomace4898 I was also taught about Jefferson Davis in high school but not John C. Calhoun. Essentially I was taught that Pres. Davis was a traitor.

@@owlnyc666 Jefferson Davis was a traitor. And he's lucky he wasn't hanged as one.

@@tomace4898 I think he was not hanged as a traitor because there was an effort to reunite the country. I think the only Southerner who was hanged was the man in charge of a Southern Prisoner of War camp.

I'm from Indiana and its hard to look at america today since the civil war and think these southern patriots were wrong. They were absolutely correct; the harsh truth is that free african americans have ruined every city in our nation. You can't argue otherwise, it's just not a fact. They should have been repatriated after the war as Lincoln intended and planned on doing. Liberia was the destination.

@@PersistentPatriotIf you think African Americans who have done so much do build up the Southern Industry don’t deserve to have their own land in the US, you are sadly mistaken. If you don’t want to live among black people, then give the entire Deep South to black people.

Nobody except for a few extremists wanted to immediately emancipate the slaves... That argument is just not based in historical fact.

The north was not to interfere with slavery going back to the ratification of the constitution. That’s the damn deal that was struck! Specific concessions were made to the smaller southern states with protections for their signing on to the constitution. Minority rights were protected so that smaller states couldn’t be abused by the federal government at behest of the larger states.

I don't see how the south "dug its heels in over slavery." The North's objection to the so-called "expansion of slavery" was the threat to white labor (they objected to free blacks moving into western territories as well) and the power in Congress that the 3/5 clause of the Constitution gave to the Jeffersonian Southern States that they otherwise would not have had. It was the North that dug its heels in.

I didn't expect someone with a John Brown profile picture to be so thoughtful and civil! Not trying to insult you here, quite the contrary. I for one see hamilton, "federalism," and the federalist party as being "puritan progeny," if you will. I think new englanders feel/felt themselves entitled to rule over the entirety of the 13 colonies out of a sense of superiority.

*southern aggression. I don't recall the North raiding southern forts or during the first shots

Two small forts before sumpter @@leahunverferth8247

Defending the rights of individual states...to slavery.

​@@geolongboarderspecifically slavery...

Calhoun and Davis were obsessed with preserving slavery! And owing people They were beyond evil 👿 racists ! Their minds were deeply diseased! They must be exposed!! So young people know the truth about why the civil war happened!

The same way CONSERVATIVE Republicans are disenfranchising voting rights. The same way Conservative Democrats had literacy and poll taxes the South to disenfranchise the voting of the descendants of slaves. 🤔😣

Democrats want to abolish gun rights and to a lesser extent free speech which are guaranteed by the constitution just as slavery was

@@PersistentPatriot Not all Democrats want to "abolish " gun rights. The vast majority want gun "control".

@@PersistentPatriot I have heard some Republicans also want to limit free speech. They want to limit speech that criticized American history.

@@PersistentPatriot HYperbole. Democrats want to have gun control, not gun prohibition. It would be like Democrats saying the Republicans want to own any weapon they want to. They are the right to bear any arms. Tanks or missiles, hand grenades. There were gun control laws from the foundation of OUR country. The right to bear "arms" is not absolute.

It doesn't stop there. Look at the entirety of subsaharan Africa.