Why Clint has Made the Day for Pc Critics with Their Ideological Agendas ; a Gay Version of Romeo and Juliet and an Attack From Clint Eastwood has Brought Political Correctness Into Focus Again. Darren Devine Looks at How the Phrase Is Now Almost Always Used As a Term of Abuse

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IN THE '60s and '70s mainstream British comedy characters like Alf Garnett would regularly launch into racist diatribes using language we would now only associate with the extreme right. For comedians in the '70s jokes about their mother-in-law and racial stereotypes were the bread and butter of their trade.

Then came the alternative comedians of the 1980s led by the likes of Ben Elton, who sought to break new ground with more observational material that rejected the tired stereotypes of their predecessors.

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Why Clint has Made the Day for Pc Critics with Their Ideological Agendas ; a Gay Version of Romeo and Juliet and an Attack From Clint Eastwood has Brought Political Correctness Into Focus Again. Darren Devine Looks at How the Phrase Is Now Almost Always Used As a Term of Abuse

Though the term didn't have the same kind of currency in the late '80s, alternative comedy was undoubtedly informed by views those on the right would call "politically correct".

But somewhere along the line, a genuine attempt to...

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