That article focuses on political correctness, which is a loaded and mostly pejorative term these days. Given that, and the fact that the survey didn't even define that term in its questions, it's not surprising that most people they talked to are critical of it.
I'd be more interested in a more granular analysis of what people are actually talking about. Do they think that not being able to call a mentally challenged person a ###### or not being able to call a homosexual person a fag without sounding like an idiot is a real problem? Or do they just dislike the vague idea of political correctness?
It's a lot like when the ACA was coming into effect. "Obamacare" was quite unpopular among a lot of segments of the population even if when you actually drilled down to the issues they supported most or all of its provisions, but the idea of it was unpalatable to them. There were even some people who supported the ACA but hated the idea of Obamacare without realizing they were the same thing.
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