Political correctness may have started out as a means to treat minorities better by weeding out obvious slurs from language, but ended up weaponized and used as a way to shut down any mentions of minorities. It is what the anti-woke crowd mimic when they claim that they don’t see skin colour and don’t care about gender.
Compared to PC, woke acknowledges that it is abusive towards minorities to ignore them.
My personal take:
Political correctness may have started out as a means to treat minorities better by weeding out obvious slurs from language, but ended up weaponized and used as a way to shut down any mentions of minorities. It is what the anti-woke crowd mimic when they claim that they don’t see skin colour and don’t care about gender.
Compared to PC, woke acknowledges that it is abusive towards minorities to ignore them.
PC: We’ll used nicer language to express our bigotry.
Woke: I realize some of my inherited ideology is bigoted, doesn’t represent my values, and I’m fixing it.