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.
Herbert Kohl, an American educator, used the term "politically correct" disparagingly in reference to someone whose loyalty to the Communist Party line superseded compassion and resulted in poor political decisions.