According to the American educator Herbert Kohl, writing about debates in New York in the late 1940s and early 1950s, "[t]he term 'politically correct' was used disparagingly to refer to someone whose loyalty to the CP line overrode compassion and led to bad politics.
According to Herbert Kohl, a prominent American educator, during debates in New York in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the term "politically correct" was used negatively to describe individuals who prioritized their loyalty to the Communist Party above compassion and consequently engaged in harmful political actions.