It seems it's got it's good points in that it encourages people to be more green and less racist, sectarian, discriminatory etc., by not talking about or publicly disagreeing with certain subjects.
However, it doesn't make it go away it just stifles debate on the subject. It is effectively censorship by manipulation. It's putting a lid on things rather than making them go away.
2007-01-01 05:02:57 · 20 answers · asked by Barbara Doll to you 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
its motives are good but it is stupidly misused.
2007-01-01 05:23:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What concerns me about PC is that it seems to create a division rather than a unity. If i grow up fearing that I must not say this or that, do this or that, then I fear the differences between cultures and don't mix. If I don't mix, I don't understand and the only knowledge I can acquire is the blown up examples of others that I read in the over-exaggerated press and I will be ignorant. Mix, learn for yourself. There is good and bad in all. I also wonder if the PC brigade bring out some of the more ridiculous notions to ensure we do not unite.
2007-01-01 13:16:21 · answer #2 · answered by Bablatrice 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Political correctness is a blight on the US...I would much rather let some idiot say what he feels. At least you know where he is coming from and what he is thinking. PC just forces that person to keep it to himself until it bubbles out in a more negative way. We have turned into a country of people who are so sensitive about everything and just waiting to be offended. We need to suck it up, toughen up, let people say whats on their mind even if its not what you want to hear, and get on with life. You can not legislate morality or racial acceptance and I would rather know what someone is thinking then to wonder if he is a ticking time bomb ready to explode.
2007-01-01 13:28:23 · answer #3 · answered by TNT 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's terrible. It flies in the face of free speech, which was a founding principle of our nation, and all free nations.
Further, it doesn't truly encourage people to be more green or less racist. It simply threatens them to keep from expressing their feelings if they are more racist and less green. In other words, it keeps true thoughts hidden and allows things to fester below the surface. So, in addition to being a threat to a free society, the political correctness movement also threatens the long-term success of the very ideals it seeks to promote.
It is the ultimate tool of rule by force and majoritarianism. Ultimately, it can be a tremendous tool to subjugate the very minorities it is ostensibly designed to support.
Political correctness is a hideous disaster.
2007-01-01 13:12:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
As you point out it has its good points. Like any ideology it can be manipulated for bad ends. Equality for women, for example, seems to have become equality for middle class women in the workplace. Not equality for those millions of women who are genuinely low paid and exploited. I can't remember when I last saw a middle class "feminist" on a picket line showing her solidarity with her less fortunate sisters.
Having said that it's not political correctness to want equality of gender and race. It's about creating a better world.
2007-01-01 15:37:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You've listed the good points and you're partly right. But it shouldn't stifle debate or argument, just ensure that a courteous standard of language is used.
I don't think there's any problem discussing race or immigration and I'm happy to listen to views that disagree with mine. I switch off when terms like nig*ger, paki, wog are used. That's not being PC, just showing respect.
The "PC gone mad" idea is kept alive by racists in organisations like BNP and Daily Mail - they use lies like "Baa Baa Blue Sheep" and a "ban on Christmas" to undermine attempts for people of different cultures to work together.
Most people who say polical correctness infringes their free speech, usually mean their 'freedom' to express hatred in abusive terms. I'll happily curtail that 'freedom'.
2007-01-01 13:14:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Mostly bad - unless it is dealing with truly tactless language - but taking away parts of language because of some tenuous connotations doesn't help us communicate.
2007-01-01 13:07:03 · answer #7 · answered by LongJohns 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For those who use it wisely it can be constructive but in the wrong way,totally annoying to everyone.
2007-01-01 13:17:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look at this country and what it's become and the answer will become blatently clear, but my answer is that Political Correctness is BAD!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-01-02 07:35:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was maybe a good thing in the past i never agreed with it but now its been taken to far and is all out of proportion
2007-01-01 13:08:58 · answer #10 · answered by mad keith 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's bad. Politcal correctness is a monster.
2007-01-01 13:05:55 · answer #11 · answered by T Time 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋