What is the price of political correctness?

Question

Do you think our culture is affected for the actual political correctness?

Should we defend our values more vigorously?

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Answer 1

Bigger government, less liberty, socialist power ruling America. End of Story!

Answer 2

Political correctness has become an excuse, creating a vacuum, all vacuums are exploited by extremists. The birth of many terrorist organisations can be traced back to a feeling of lack of representation.
Before the American war of independence a major protest was led, as I am sure you know only too well, with the slogan 'No taxation without representation'
You could argue that the USA of day was born out of terrorism of a sort.

We have a significant difference to today, in 1776 the wars were fought in the locality, with today's technology anybody's war is everybodys' war if the group involved can exploit the technology, not just of arms, but of the media.
The war in Iraq is not being lost on the ground but in the homes of America, Al-Qeda know this and political correctness works in their favour.
The 3 American soldiers in captivity have a very good chance of being tortured to death, this is expected of Al-Qeda. The coalition forces cannot operate the same way, even civilian casualties caused by terrorists using human shields are the fault of the 'occupying' forces not the insurgents using them.

'Civilians' can shelter insurgents in their homes knowing that any 'collateral' damage will work in the favour of their cause.

Our culture must adapt to the advent of 'political correctness', when it forms an insidious barrier to fair debate, but must not be allowed to become a rallying call for the extremist.
It has currently been used to dennouce others who would speak on controversial subjects.

The classic in the UK is to accuse someone of being racisit because they are upset by the rapid changes in their communities.
This plays into the hands of real racisits who are zealots and crave the sensationalist publicity they can achieve by claiming they are the only ones with the courage to speak up for a group of people feeling isolated and unrepresented.

Answer 3

I watched the first youtube story about the prophet mohammed. Sounds to me like Islam is more of a cult than a religion. That book about mohammed would be an interesting read.

Yes our culture is affected in a negative way by political correctness and people need to be able to defend their values. Why is a person who doesn't care for the gay agenda called homophobic, while a person who does not believe in God isn't called a Godaphobic? Double standard?

Funny how Schmorgen brings up the whole Don Imus thing. Al Sharpton was the ring leader in getting Imus fired for the "Ho" comment. Al Sharpton is the poster child for political correctness, however his own slate is not clean. He has called people "Jew Boy", "Whore", etc, yet he has not been fired from the US Congress. So give me a break Schmorgen.

Answer 4

Took a look at the 360 above .... can't stand the movies you like.... can't stand the kid picture with the smokes....

Sticking up for my values alright.

Political correctness has it's place, just like most things in life .... a time and a place for everything.

Answer 5

There is too much over the top politeness, and Political Correctness gets in the way of truth and true communication.

Answer 6

First of all, we have no culture so what we don't have we cant miss can we? Define what you think is "our" culture and you will be stuck very quickly. It is one of those words that sound nice but mean nothing. For instance, what you think is "our" culture would also be part of Hindu, Jewish or Muslim culture. AND drinking warm beer does not count. ( Cos I don't like warm beer)

And , we may both be British but I can bet you any money that my culture is not the same as yours so the "OUR" is gone straightaway.

Which brings me finally to the political correctness bit: And what I propose here is that most people do not know what the term actually means. It is politically correct not to insult "foreigners." - Which makes sense.

Answer 7

The price of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is the opportunity to be lead by people who are only interested in themselves!

But as long as we permit ourselves to be "lead around on a leash" by individuals who would rather BASH A POLITICIAN than accomplish anything important in government...this trend will continue indefinitely!

Answer 8

freedom is mentioned vigorously here well just today a chief of police said its not a country he wants to live in its Orwell come real with 41 million cameras watching us and still more being put in place

Answer 9

in the uk we cant even call a manhole in the road due to pressure from pc loonies helped along by labour councils
some councils gave lesbian groups thousands of pounds to get books in large print for short sighted dykes
kids and oap,s groups got nowt
middle class numptys who think its right on that gays adopt kids when perfectly able and decent hetrosexual couples are turned down just because of some sniffy and snooty social worker
the world has gone to hell
as the pc brigade will hope they have iron pants to deflect auld nicks pitchfork

Answer 10

Political correctness lies in compromise of values. Defending values would result into political suicide. We are living in the era of paralytic polity

Answer 11

I like to think of political correctness like dinner manners. When you're out at a fancy restaurant you dress nicely, say please and thankyou, eat with the correct utensils and so on. At home you can eat your dinner on the lounge in your underwear if you so choose. At a friend's BBQ you can slam back beers and cook the beef as though you've caught the cow and wrangled it and slaughtered it yourself in a true test of bravery and skill.

There's a time and a place for everything.

In a professional setting (for most people this is work), political correctness is important.

But when you're kicking back at home or cruising the internet, political correctness usually goes out the window.

One shouldn't affect the other.