By stopping people from making abusive comments towards young women publicly , do we gain or lose ?

Question

I know for a fact that young people are discouraged from participating when they see other prominent youth become the target of insults.
Does society need to go back to pre-PC days, when it was ok to openly abuse certain co-workers and students?
What do you gain to speak this way, if yes?

But rappers didn't single out the team for that talk.

In the pre-PC days - women stayed out of sports.

Answer 1

When was it ever right to degrade another human being?
Abusive comments, as you call them, create a ripple effect. When allowing racist remarks in a public setting, it condones worse displays of racism.
The first answerer has an excellent point. Black people should not be allowed to degrade black women either.

Answer 2

Anti-discrimination laws are mostly aimed at the government. We do not want the government to discriminate based on certain criteria. Some discrimination laws apply to the public sector in regards to employment and a few other areas as well.

There is nothing to prevent people from discriminating against each other, offending each other, etc. You do not have the right to not be offended. You have the choice to watch a particular TV show or not, to listen to a radio show or not, to go into a bar or not, etc, etc.

You do not have the right to force people in their own businesses and homes to cater to your every need or feeling.

If people want to form a private club for all women then men do not have the right to intrude on that. If people want to form a private club for all men then women do not have the right to intrude on that. Form your own club if you can't get into one. The law does not "protect you" or grant you rights to do whatever you want or keep your feelings from getting hurt.

The more free speech we have the better off our country is. People have choices to listen or not, to believe or not, to ascertain the relevance of speech, etc.

In some circle what Imus said is daily language, in others it is not. He certainly wasn't throwing out obscenities, aiding terrorists, etc. I hear much worse things (in my opinion) all the time on TV and the radio.

Let the marketplace work and if no one listens to him then sobeit. Sponsors will drop and the show will go away.

I'm more concerned with the mainstream media constantly putting out lies, misleading information or liberal propoganda at every turn. I don't think they should be shut down but I think it should be addressed and exposed for what it is.

We should not restrict our freedoms because some people get offended.

Answer 3

I didn't even know Imus had a program or announced Basketball a week ago. Now he is American Pop Culture.

Listening to the comments it seems like he was trying to be inclusive (I'm hip) not judgmental. He most likely has no idea how Athletes /Women/College/ Young/ Black, talk in private.

His fauxpas was more like a teenager accidentally saying a 4 letter word " **** " in front of their parents. Than a deep rooted conspiracy to defame Athletes/Women/College/Young/Black, of their moment of glory.

Answer 4

No different than the way Rosie the Dem targets people for no reason. If a comment is going to discourage "youth" from making something of themselves, we need to encourage these "youth" to become Republicans so they don't blame their failures on other people

I don't see how a comment on a talk show is going to affect a childs decision to strive for success.

PC is a joke.

Answer 5

People need to stop being so offended by things that are not offensive. The Don Imus firing is ridiculous and represents a double standard. By telling me that only black people can make disparaging comments about black people you are saying that freedom of speech depends on race. It does not. And if rappers want to refer to women as "dirty f-ing hos" then they should be pulled from the airwaves just like Imus. Its just silly to show this fake outrage over something like this. Next time Jesse Jackson refers to NYC as "Hymietown" we should all rise up in outrage as well. But it only goes one way in to days world.

Answer 6

You gain a tougher society, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Having a strong people capable of handling themselves in adversity is good. Plus, it would happen less. In the pre-PC days, making abusive comments toward a young woman would get your butt kicked by every man within earshot.

Answer 7

how do you propose stopping them? If it's by making your voice be heard and saying you disagree with whatthey are saying and you decide to no longer listen to them then I am with you 100 percent. But if you are proposing somehow making laws or rules to stop people from speaking their mind, no matter how foolish and insensitive , then I would be against you 100 percent. I don't agree with what imus said but i agree with both his right to say it and his employers right to fire him for it.

Answer 8

I think this comes down to that in America most of us feel that people should have the right to say stupid things.

Of course we should practice self-censorship in the form of common courtesy and human decency. I absolutely think we should be polite, I just don't think we should be forced to be polite.