[garinda]

I too hate the term 'the Poitically Correct Brigade'. Referring to it as if it is an actual body, something you can sign up and join like the Boy's Brigade.

Political correctness was started by a few American academics, at east coast universities in the late seventies/early eighties. It's primary concern was to change the way some words, and names, were used prejudicially, with the intent to hurt. Initally a noble cause.

Now it's just a term used by lazy journalists, to report breathlessy about anything which signifies a perceived change for the worse, and to my mind is a fairly meaningless term.