“Political Correctness is about turning a blind eye to painful reality because your comfortable feelings are more important to you than saving lives and providing quality of life to people who work their *** off to be productive and are a benefit to this great American Dream.”
2007-01-14 15:18:39 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Perfect description...
2007-01-14 15:26:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
P.C. is about being polite, with a generation of rude people becoming more prevalent in society, will please and thank you become extinct? Will Sir and Madam be replaced by hey stupid? Will all respect be lost? I hope not, how about you? In answer you your question, no that is not an accurate description of Political Correctness.
2007-01-15 04:49:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nah. Political correctness just means being educated and not going out of your way to make an *** of yourself.
2007-01-14 23:28:33 · answer #3 · answered by The answer guy 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. You're thinking of idiocy. Political Correctness is fine- it can be taken overboard, but who really minds having to say firefighter instead of fireman? That's PC. And Before you ask, one of the scoutmasters in my troop is a volunteer firefighter- and female.
The wikipedai article is decent, but not great.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
2007-01-14 23:30:04 · answer #4 · answered by The Big Box 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Political correctness is restricting language and behavior so that individuals and groups are not offended. This has a negative outcome of creating an environment of less honesty. It can also be dangerous. For example, airport security cannot racial profile so they might pat down an elderly woman, but let the middle easterner with the shoe bomb go through security without the proper level of scrutiny. This behavior can also hamper police departments from getting the bad guys because of the same racial profiling restriction can cause the drug dealer from being scrutinized.
2007-01-14 23:21:18 · answer #5 · answered by charles 3 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Politically correct is the polite way of escaping the blame or accusation of "disorderly conduct".
2007-01-15 00:16:59 · answer #6 · answered by no worries 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it's substituting your own innate beliefs and convictions for those beliefs and convictions that you perceive to be the general consensus, even if that consensus has been manipulated or manufactured by others trying to promote their own agenda. It is a way of "fitting in" based upon a misconception of what most people believe or think.
2007-01-14 23:30:53 · answer #7 · answered by danny_boy_jones 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No. I would say that's a gross exaggeration. There is an element of ignoring reality in some cases, but PC is mostly about civility.
2007-01-14 23:26:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Nope. I don't recognize that as political correctness. I have almost no idea what that person is ranting about, and it does not remind me at all about what "political correctness" means.
2007-01-14 23:24:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
That covers alot of it, better to be Historically accurate than politically correct.
2007-01-14 23:22:05 · answer #10 · answered by asmith1022_2006 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋