DEBATE this please?

Question

Why is it that we have to be so politically correct this day and age. We can't say black person- we have to say African American, brown-native american ect... So why is it they can call us white and not caucasian, to be politically correct.

Answer 1

Well, honestly, black people get offended when we call them black. I mean, we're white so they're black. Unless they wanted us to call them brown because thats the color of their skin. I'm not racist, but is it not fair when black people call us white and not caucasian? If you call me white, i'll call you black. If you call me caucasian, i'll call you african american, deal? ANd just further more, i hate being politically correct. Its stupid and I don't care.

Answer 2

I here a lot of complaining about having to be "politically correct"... but to be honest, I don't see it at all.

People say black and white all the time on tv and the news, where you'd think they'd have to be "PC". Day-to-day people still use a lot of worse words than the all the time. People if different races aren't PC whent hey talk about themselves...and I've never had a problem using words around people.

I cannot remmeber the last time I've heard somebody say "that caucasian guy...". I think the police use the word, but simply because it's much more discriptive. People can look "caucasian" and not be "white".

Answer 3

The real question is: why can't we all just be people?
And why do we all get so upset over a simple word denoting what is probably the most obvious feature in a cursory description of any individual? They have more skin than eyes or hair--isn't that the most obvious beginning tern in describing them? So what's the big deal? Except for those pathologically averse to just calling a spade a spade and instead having to make it into 'a small digging instrument.' If they're all that fearful of just calling it a spade...have you ever wondered what all their other usages are aiming to cover up or misrepresent?
By the way, I happen to be a Native American, as well as part Amerindian. The term actually just indicates that one was born in this country. If you were, you should be proud of it, and if you weren't...well, you made the right choice.
Unless, of course, you are here illegally, in which case--Shame on you!

Answer 4

I've thought about this one before. Political correctness is everywhere these days....and its getting way out of hand. No one ever calls me Caucasian- If I'm referred to by my race, its always "white"...which I don't have a problem with, but I've noticed that when white people say "black" instead of African American, some tend to get really mad.....

Answer 5

The issue with political correctness is that if you offend anybody in your audience with a politically incorrect remark, you've lost your credibility to those people. Anything you say from that time forward will be skewed in their eyes as coming from an insensitive (and hence rude) person. The point is, you never know what term will offend one person and not the other, so trying not to be offensive to anyone has created this situation. This is especially true in the media and for public figures, but applies to all professions. I'm a consultant... guess what happens to my likelihood of getting a new project if I offend one person in a company? I'm not saying our oversensitivity is right or wrong, just stating the realities associated with failure to be respectful of those who choose to be oversensitive.

Answer 6

Good question, here's another: Why is it okay for black people to have a United ***** College fund, but you can't refer to them as ******? Why can they call their organization the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, but you can't refer to them as colored?

Why do they want to be called African American, when most of them have never been to Africa, neither have their parents, grandparents, great grand parents, nor their great great grand parents. In fact, millions of black people in the US are more 'native' Americans, that is, they have more generations born here than millions more white people, yet the white people just call themselves 'Americans'?

Why did a school have an African American day, and they had a contest to pick one African American student, and the students who voted for the only actual African-born kid in that school got in trouble and were disciplined, because the African-born kid happened to be white? Is that racial discrimination, or what?

It is called a double standard, which is another term for hypocrite.

Answer 7

Because ---

It is the request (in some cases, a demand) by the blacks, the brown-native Am and others to be addressed that way. These people somehow feel that every thing is directed at them at a racially motivated, demeaning sort of way. This is not true.

So, the blacks and browns wanted themselves to be called that way by the "white" people.

Do you know who calls a Caucasian as "white"?. It is the blacks and the browns. When the so called white meets another so called white, they do not address each other by color. (unless his/her last name happens to be White).

Answer 8

When and if we can ever get to a society that does not "need" to classify as "black or white", after all we are all just people. Then we can truly say we have over come discrimination. Until then whatever one race calls another will be regarded with skepticism by the other race.

Answer 9

Political Correctness was meant to protect people from unkind words.... it has missed it's mark completely... instead it has prohibited freedom of speech.

Instead of searching your heart before speaking and being concerned about someones feelings, then telling them the truth tactfully...Political Correctness is a way to avoid the truth by sugar coating and promotes lying instead.

I do not support Political Correctness....

Answer 10

Forget about the political correctness for a second. Referring to someone or to some group by their skin pigmentation is something that we should stop doing as a whole. Everyone is human. We should stop selecting friends/neighbors/significant others/employees/etc... the same way we buy cars.