Why the sudden need to be politically correct and sensitive?

Question

today you cant get a straight answer in an interview. people always give the politically correct answer.


If someone says something bad they are thought of a racist or a bigot. take that guy from grey's anatomy. people talk about him as if he has this hatred towards ******** (oh no im sorry i meant homosexuals).


now people want to change sports teams who use indians as mascots (seminoles, redskins, indians) because it is not sensitive to native americans. when did they decide it was not sensitive? what happen all the previous decades were they sensitive to indians then?


some people need to stop being so sensitive and politically correct...

Answer 1

People don't like to be told the straight truth anymore, they want everything to be pretty, and popular, like we are in high school again. but ther isn't anything pretty or real anymore.
If you don't share the opinion that is the most popular then well you are the one that is wrong. And the people of this nation has turned into sensitive little sissys who does't want to get there feelings hurt, and the truth hurts! they go to church as long as the preacher preachs LOVE,LOVE,LOVE, but if he starts preaching that sleeping with someones spouce is a sin, that Homosexuality is an abonitation unto God, then they are crazy bible thumpers.If a woman today decides she wants to remain a virgin until she marries then she is frigid or a freak, but if sleeps around she is a ho???And why is it popular for all women to be a size 5, bleach blond(bottle),Blue eyed(contacts),DDcup(silicone emplant) whore?
Because it looks good even if its rotten inside.....Truth, honesty, integraty, thats not pretty

Answer 2

I agree with you people are over sensitive. In some cases, like the Snickers ad, I think that the outrage is more ridiculous than the "offensiveness" of the ad requires. Yet in the case of the GM ad, where the robot gets fired and commits suicide, I kind of see the upheaval being justified. I mean, so many families were challenged, uprooted, and even destroyed by problems with the auto industry over the last two decades that I think that's a bit too close to a major nerve. In contrast, not even the gayest of gay rights advocates can dispute that if two macho-ish straight guys accidentally kissed that they would be freaked out and overcompensate to prove their manliness. That's why it's funny. Lighten the hell up, people. Unless of course you are in the presence of a Micheal Richards type. That was just bad bad bad taste all around.

Answer 3

If you want more information about the culturally insensitivity behind mascots please email me. I am SURE I can provide you with education you have not considered on this subject.

Do you know what redskin even means? It refers to the bloody scalp of Native people after settlers cut it off. How can that ever be sensitive or morally justified???

It is not a matter of being sensitive but of spreading education. How can you say someone is just being sensitive when they take their Native child to a ballgame and people are doing the tomahawk chop, how is that safe for a child mentally or physically?

Answer 4

Mikey, do you remember how much it hurt you in grade school to be teased because of something silly, or to be left alone, or not picked for a team, or laughed at because you were too fat, or too skinny, or had acne, or had a funny name, or were different in some way from some of the other kids? It hurt, didn't it?

Good people don't want to hurt other people.

Good people care about other people's feelings.

Good people are willing to do something kind for other people, like trying not to deliberately offend them or hurt them.

Political correctness can go too far sometimes, as I think it has with some of the sports team names.

But it is so much better to be a little too politically correct and hurt no one, than to be insensitive and hurtful to others. Calling people "****--" or "***---" or even "fatso" or other derogatory terms serves no purpose but to hurt them.

And you're a good person. Right?

Answer 5

Well I say let's start a new trend and be straight up honest all the time. You're exactly right. Like that Snickers commercial that ran during the Super Bowl that got scrapped because some gay rights people were offended by it. How stupid! If you don't like the commercial then don't buy a Snickers. Other than that, shut up and mind your business.

Answer 6

You seem to think it is your right to decide what is insulting to homosexuals and Native Americans. Why do you get to make that decision? If I say that I think it is OK to say you are an idiot for the ideas you have and I feel sorry for your parents, children and everyone around you, does that make it OK? It has been OK to say rude things about people who are different from us. That is changing. How hard is it for you not to be a jerk? Is it really so difficult?

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I feel political correctness is sacrificing my freedom of expression and speech so i don't offend anyone. From what Ive learned is that people are offended all the time and they think they have a right to shut the person up, but they don't.

Answer 9

No one has the right to hurt someone else, be it through ignorance or bigotry. If people would try to show a little compassion, this world wouldn't be such a mess. Try walking in someone else's shoes before you decide what's offensive and what isn't.

Answer 10

Its called the "Y" generation. They want everything now and do not want to work for any of it This needs to STOP NOW. We need to stop being so sensitive and start kicking some A#@ into shape.