Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct, commonly abbreviated to PC) is an ordinarily pejorative term used to describe language, actions, or policies seen as being excessively calculated not to offend or disadvantage any particular group of people in society.n 1793, the term politically correct appeared in a U.S. Supreme Court judgment of a political-lawsuit. William Safire states that the first recorded use of the term in the modern sense is by Toni Cade in the 1970 anthology The Black Woman. The term probably entered use in the United Kingdom around 1975.