2007-02-28 03:58:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
The problem with America is we try to be too fair, and the result is chaos.
The biggest societal mistake America commits is trying to make everything perfect. Every miniscule offense, whether real or imagined, has to be "corrected". Hence, people develop a bizarre sense of absolute entitlement.
Filmmaker Michael Moore asks people throughout his movie on the Columbine massacre why America had so much violent crime, often involving guns. Here is the answer he has been looking for: the unrealistic sense of absolute entitlement driven into the minds of Americans.
Only in America does one person have the "right" to be offended by something that neither concerns nor even affects him. In Florida, ONE Muslim complained about a nativity scene in a library, so everyone had to be deprived of seeing a beautiful, traditional Christmas display because of one silly, petulant whiner. In another case, a person complained about a nativity scene, even though they also had a Jewish Menorah and Muslim religious symbols on display for people to enjoy.
People have gotten so crazy about their "inviolate rights" that when something relatively insignificant happens, they react by shooting someone.
The ACLU does not understand one simple concept: a society cannot function when everyone has the right to disrupt absolutely anything they don't agree with. Imagine if you had a big dinner party at your home, and "Sally" complains about all the dishes containing meat, because she is a vegetarian.
"Bill" objects to the gold-rimmed wine glasses because gold is sometimes mined by underpaid workers in third world countries.
"Janice" complains that the dinner plates were manufactured by a non eco-friendly company, and demands that her host destroy all the offensive china immediately.
"Ahmed" bitterly denouces his hostess because she is serving wine, which violates the precepts held dear in the Koran. Also, this infidel hostess should be covered from head to toe in a burka, because her exposed calves are an abomination to god.
I could go on and on, but you get the idea. Just like this dinner party could not even be held, a society cannot function when the legitimacy of absolutely everything is constantly challenged.
Enough of this chaos.
Last Christmas down in Florida, a library had a number of holiday and Christmas displays, including a Christian nativity scene, some Jewish holiday display, and another for Muslims. One...... yes, ONE Muslim complained that there was a (gasp!) Christian display on public property, and demanded that it be removed.
Therefore, hundreds of people were denied seeing a beautiful, traditional Christmas display because of one whiny Muslim.
(BTW: they left the other religious displays intact. See a bit of bias here?)
2007-02-28 04:10:16 · answer #1 · answered by pachl@sbcglobal.net 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good question. You can't say anything positive about a majority group in America without being called a racist or bigot. Oh well, here in 10 years hispanics will be the majority and then I plan on taking advantage of my new minority status and let them work while I am off enjoying the good life on a tropical beach somewhere.
2007-02-28 04:03:54 · answer #2 · answered by Jace 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Political correctness surpresses debate. It imposes limits on what can be discussed, thereby greatly reducing the posibility of finding solutions to problems. Then, politicians step in, and promise to solve those problems for us. But instead of solving the problems, they instead declare the admission of the existence of those problems to be "hurtfull" or "racist" or "sexist" or any other "ist" that fits. Then, when that problem can no longer be discussed, the politican is free to demonize anyone who claims that he's not doing anything to fix it. After all, the politician is the one who "cared enough" to keep people from being offend by hearing the problem mentioned. And isn't caring about something more important than fixing it?
2007-02-28 04:48:44 · answer #3 · answered by Thisisnotmyrealname 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
China is done of chinese human beings. u.s. represents for the entire planet. we've voters the following from each tribe and blood-line interior the international. they're between the finished cultures and powers in the international, yet do not must be a blending Pot like we are. The playing cards they're fidgeting with are diverse than ours.
2016-12-05 01:42:43 · answer #4 · answered by bartow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Political Correctness translates to being polite and considerate of other peoples' feelings. What is so wrong with that frame of thought?
If more thought that way, then I would think that "political correctness" as a concept would not exist.
2007-02-28 04:41:14 · answer #5 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only reason political correctness survives - as with ALL societal norms - is that we ALLOW them to.
If you speak against political correctness in general, but then adapt your behavior to fit into what's politically correct, you are aiding political correctness.
2007-02-28 20:04:54 · answer #6 · answered by Seth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The majority should not ride roughshod over the minority.
2007-02-28 04:01:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
political correctness translates into politeness. I don't see the harm in politeness.
2007-02-28 04:03:17 · answer #8 · answered by truth seeker 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
because we are not all the majority. we are not all like you. we are surrounded by the majority, can't we have this one little thing? or do you have to take it all?
2007-02-28 05:23:00 · answer #9 · answered by Tacyella 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question! p.c. is wrong especially when carried to the extreme as it has.
2007-02-28 04:11:59 · answer #10 · answered by slabsidebass 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋