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What is political correctness/incorrectness?

I've heard this term get tossed around in arguments and debates plenty of times and I still have yet to know what it means.I know it has a negative stigma behind it, but I just want to know what the term means, and what an example of it is.

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puck61

From the left- Political correctness is the careful use of language so as to offend as few as possible. It is conversational etiquette.
From the right- Political correctness is a silly, counterproductive, and sometimes dangerous fear of words.