That is not Politically Correct!

How many times have you heard that a statement of yours is not politically correct? What exactly does being politically correct mean? and why was is it invented?

Well political correctness is a term applied to language, ideas, policies, or behaviour seen as seeking to minimize offense to gender, racial, cultural, disabled, aged, you name it identity groups. This can be traced all the way back to the end of the eighteenth century in the US in the supreme US court. The whole point of it was to set up a neutral perspective on everything really. In my opinion the use of Political Correctness is in itself more incorrect then just normal language. I believe that calling somebody "vertically challenged" is worse then calling somebody "short" as it creates a feeling of disability as in you are challenged. It is not a disability at all. Calling somebody "short" is just stating a fact. While calling somebody "vertically challenged" is just mocking them.
Many critics of political correctness agree with me about it. They also argue that it endagers freedom of speech with which everyone is allowed to speak their mind without consequences.