2007-01-17 02:17:42 · 20 answers · asked by Andy S 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
YES!!! i never kno anymore if im offending someone. i always say something then say "or whatever is politically correct".sometimes the person im talkin to smiles or laughs then sometimes the person will just look at me as if im nutty or something.who knows anymore.if you say it you shouldnt if you dont you should. im just tired thinking bout it.
2007-01-17 02:22:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I rather like the Geico commercials about caveman PC. Truth is, PC is the ground work for bigger and more destructive forms of censorship, which the left claims to be against. How far from Orwell's "1984" are we really with thought police and mind control. Its my kids I worry most about. Text books are being designed to be more and more PC.
There was a huge battle in Oakland CA in the 90's over text books not being multicultural enough. The author of this text book was publicly persecuted as a racist, classist, sexist and every other "ist" you can think of because the books didn't contain enough perspectives on EVERYTHING that happened in the US since its colonization. The man was a professor at UCLA and had dedicated his entire career to getting more cultural perspectives into text books and was and liberal and multicultural as they come. He had spent his whole life fighting against what he was accused of. In the end, the kids spent most of that year without text books and then the parents of Oakland voted to go back to an earlier addition of the book that was more Euro-centric and biased than before.
My point is, you not only cannot please everyone, from a PC point of view, you can't please anyone.
2007-01-17 02:42:40 · answer #2 · answered by tragic_exile 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it has! It seems that you can't say anything now without someone taking offence! I do believe that we should not deliberately set out to upset people but some folks need to be a little less sensitive and not fly off the handle over every little thing. I think it stems from our modern 'suing society' where everyone wants something for nothing and they think that the 'stress' that could be cause by someone saying something 'un PC' could make them loads a money!
2007-01-17 02:44:31 · answer #3 · answered by nurserees 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If anybody did as they could and stated what they opt for we would want to be loose yet faith is about administration and this matches supposedly secular governments who especially fund non secular cults even besides the undeniable fact that they seem to be a swindle and portion of the state dictatorship equipment. Having stated all this they fake it truly is not proper besides the undeniable fact that it truly is, and to operate to controversy the religion is very only a canopy-up for evil exploits and blatant divide and triumph over procedures, by the authorities themselves to save human beings in debt to conflict using god and media because the devisive autos.
2016-11-24 23:08:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes... My girlfriend told me yesterday that I could not say blackboard anymore, it's now a chalk board.
It's gone too far.
Same as kids no longer have any respect or disipline.
In fact the whole world is going to ****!
2007-01-17 03:59:46 · answer #5 · answered by Mr T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
only in countries that suffer from "ancestral guilt."
that is feeling guilty for something our ancestors did and we could never have been actually responsible for.
I don't understand why people allow this non-sense. we have to accommodate every one else but our own feelings get thrown out the window. We have to act the way other want us to act just so they can feel better about them selves.
go to almost any other country in the world and tell them about being "PC" in the way they talk and act, and they would probably laugh their butts off.
Sorry (American) folks, no where in the constitution does it protect feelings from getting hurt.
2007-01-17 02:28:51 · answer #6 · answered by Stone K 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a cancerous evil that I have never tolerated. Those who use this insipid weapon are fullfilling George Orwell's prophesy and helping to enslave the human race. Without our free will we are zombies - thus this becomes a useful tool for politicians to silence their critics. Of course, it's nice to be nice, but nobody should try to force us.
2007-01-17 02:58:03 · answer #7 · answered by I'm Sparticus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a word, yes. There is nothing wrong with a bit of healthy berating! (Within reason of course - some people are just rude)
2007-01-17 03:55:32 · answer #8 · answered by rustywhurley 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Political correctness is a wonderful tool to keep society in general from facing important issues. Everything is contraversial and taboo to talk about.
2007-01-17 02:23:01 · answer #9 · answered by twoskinsoneman 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Yes. However, I do see a light at the end of the tunnel as more and more people become tired of it.
2007-01-17 02:24:22 · answer #10 · answered by Elizabeth Howard 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋