2006-07-23 11:47:14 · 11 answers · asked by Betty 2 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
Anything that respects all people makes society better.
2006-07-23 12:05:16 · answer #1 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Political correctness has gone too far. We've largely turned into a society unwilling to speak our minds for fear of being politically incorrect. I think the idea was a good one in the beginning, to take people's feelings into account. To not label people. Now we have bent over backward so far that we've lost sight of what's truly important.
2006-07-23 14:39:24 · answer #2 · answered by celticwoman777 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so...I think it's a poor substitute for tact. Political correctness just gets in the way. For example: once I was trying to organize some people in my church to help purchase the essentials for a teenage girl in a struggling family (she didn't even have a bed to sleep on!). No one wanted to help because they were afraid that it would offend. I see this all the time. People would rather see others suffer, lie to everyone, or keep great ideas to themselves; rather than run the risk of offending someone.
2006-07-23 11:54:16 · answer #3 · answered by Crys H. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it's just covert racism. For example, why is it that blacks are "African-American," while whites aren't "European-American"? (Instead, it's "Caucasian.") Why is the PC nomenclature for some ethnic groups based on place of origin and for others, their religious preference? PC nomenclature is all based on the same *physical* characteristics that most racial slurs are, so it's really just a feel-good movement that doesn't truly make anything better.
Another example: my nickname. As an asthmatic, I have no troubles referring to myself as "Wheezer," but I'm sure there are some overly-sensitive clods who would try to convince me that I'm "breathing disabled," or "respiratorially challenged," or some such cockamamie crap.
I have no problem with someone wanting to be more sensitive to other customs and cultures, but I think we've gone too far. There are too many inconsistencies in PC nomenclature to take the fad seriously. Since it's a fad, I try to ignore its precepts.
2006-07-23 12:08:48 · answer #4 · answered by wheezer_april_4th_1966 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Political Correctness is evil and will destroy our society. George Orwell warned us about the 'thought police' in '1984'. Unfortunately, the future is now current.
2006-07-23 12:17:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, because now matter how you try and spin it, a ignorant dumb-a$$ is still an ignorant dumb-a$$. Im not talking about mental handicaps, you cant help that. Im talking about people are are stupid because they choose to be. Some schools now think it is politically incorrect and damaging to a childs self esteem to give them a bad grade........
What a rude awakening they will get when they enter the real world!
2006-07-23 11:55:13 · answer #6 · answered by cognitively_dislocated 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People being respectful of one another, considerate, and compassionate certainly is. If 'political correctness' is those things, then yes, it is. When it's overreacting, applying one rule to all situations regardless of context and people getting offended for no reason, then it's not.
2006-07-23 11:51:25 · answer #7 · answered by cdogzilla 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so, all it does is stop everyone from speaking their mind, so not to offend some one who has never learned that life is hard and things don't all ways go their way. it's only done so we don't make them cry.
2006-07-23 11:57:14 · answer #8 · answered by gamemanual 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It can be,when taken in moderation. Unfortunately it can also be misused by the self-righteous.
2006-07-23 12:04:56 · answer #9 · answered by Alion 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, life is more than shades of grey!
2006-07-23 11:50:59 · answer #10 · answered by Wounded duckmate 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋