How do you like this definition of political correctness?

Question

"... Political Correctness remains just what it was intended to be: a sophisticated and dangerous form of censorship and oppression, imposed upon the citizenry with the ultimate goal of manipulating, brainwashing and destroying our society." – www.NewsMax.com
Is it only liberals who use the PC tactic? I mean they call illegal aliens "undocumented workers", or even Senator Harry Reid's "undocumented Americans."

To Jehen. You are naive. PC is used to stilfe dissent and to guide the debate to the PC enforcers side. Using the term "undocumented worker" instead of the accurate term "illegal alien" tries to deflect the reader from the points that the illegal aliens have violated our immigration laws and that not all of them are here to work. Some are here to commit crimes, and to live off govt services that they get from their anchor babyies.

Answer 1

It's absolutely correct. I can't believe "undocumented Americans". The man is sinister.

Answer 2

Read and you´ll see :
Top ten list of P. lies you are told, all designed to make you believe that government should have more power than it already has, so that it can create more of the disasters we are accustomed to:
10. My new program will generate jobs. Truth: only the market generates jobs on net.
9. My education program will reform schools so that they leave no child behind. Truth: the public schools do not work very good for the same reason no government program can work. They exist outside the market economy.
8. My program will save industry x. Truth: industry must be part of the market or else it is not really industry at all.
7. I won't raise your taxes but I will pass lots of new programs: Truth: all programs must be paid for.
6. As president, I will pursue a humble foreign policy. Truth: nothing in the office of the president encourages humility.
5. This war is humanitarian and winnable. Truth: war is nothing but a government program on a destructive scale, and just as error prone.
4. My reform will bring market-based competition. Be on the lookout for this lie, which market partisans are likely to believe. There is only one kind of genuine market, and it is rooted in private property and nothing else.
3. We will secure the nation. Truth: government cannot provide security better than markets, any more than it can provide food or houses better than the market.
2. Government is compassionate. Truth: men who seek power over the lives of others are the coldest, cruelest humans of all.
1. You can't love your country and hate your government. Truth: A person who loves his country loves liberty first.
One hundred years from now, the great story of the latter part of the 20th century and the first part of the 21st century will be the vast improvements in life wrought by technology. Consider the web, the cell phone, the PDA, the affordable laptop computer, advances in medicine, and the spread of prosperity to all corners of the globe. What has government had to do with this? The answer is: nothing contributory. It has worked only to impede progress, and we can only be thankful that it hasn't succeeded.
Through all of human history, governments have caused frightening levels of bloodshed and horror, but in the end, what has prevailed is not power but the market economy. Even today governments can only play catch-up. This is because of the reasons that Mises outlined. Government cannot control the human mind, so it cannot, in the long run, control the choices people make. It cannot control economic forces, which are a far more powerful and permanent feature of the world than any government anyway.
Mises.com

Answer 3

Nice job! "Undocumented Americans?" Pahleeze!!!

To Scenic Point: You should inform your uninformed boss, that "Hispanic" is a term that refers to ALL Latinos, which is really the PC word, "Hispanic" is last year's term, and NOT just to Mexicans. My husband is a Latino and HE was BORN an American in Puerto Rico! That's part of the problem with PC: People often insist on it but they really have no clue as to what they're talking about so they are INcorrect, both PC and any other way!

Answer 4

I recently got snapped at and reprimanded at work for calling some customers Mexicans by my boss, who informed me that that word was politically incorrect and that I should have referred to them as Hispanics. I tried telling her that they had just arrived here from Mexico and had in fact referred to themselves as Mexicans, at which point she again told me it was an improper term.

I couldn't help but, think how totally biased she was AGAINST Mexicans, as she felt they weren't entitled to national pride. It really irked me and it still irks me and after that, I had another co-worker again tell me the same thing.

So, in their minds the term, Mexican, denotes something to be ashamed of and they are the ones that have decided that, not the newly arrived legal Mexican family I had in my waiting room that day.

To my boss and co-worker, the term denotes poor illegal migrate workers and nothing else.

Their stance is full of prejudice and demeans the very people they 'think' they are bettering by referring to them by race only.

Ridiculous. It is my newest pet peeve. The Mexican people have much to take pride in. My son is half Mexican. Would he refer to himself in any other way? Not a chance, nor should he be so righteously told he should be ashamed of who he is.

I no longer work at that company, not wanting to have such bigotry forced upon myself and I feel very good about that choice.

Everyone in the company had just migrated from Oregon to California to set up a new branch. I previously had thought Californians were the most hopelessly and blindly liberal segment of American society. Now, I know better. Do I feel bad about classifying them? No worse than they felt forcing their preferred classifications.

Answer 5

This is a hoot. Political correctness is simply having good manners to not insult people with terms they find offensive. We all roll our eyes at some of the gratuitous over reaching silliness that gets labeled as political correctness, but it is after all an attempt to be gracious and accommodating (something completely lost here on Yahoo answers) . There is nothing dangerous or sinister or brainwashing about it. Being polite, gracious and accommodating in civil discourse (even to a fault) has absolutely no chance of destroying society.

As for censorship, censorship is only dangerous when perpetrated by government or authority. When the market place of ideas has no use for offensive utterances, that is not censorship, that is good manners winning out over boors.

Answer 6

positive job! "Undocumented human beings?" Pahleeze!!! To Scenic ingredient: you're able to desire to tell your uninformed boss, that "Hispanic" is a term that refers to ALL Latinos, it particularly is particularly the computing gadget word, "Hispanic" is final 365 days's term, and not purely to Mexicans. My husband is a Latino and HE replaced into BORN an American in Puerto Rico! it particularly is area of the undertaking with computing gadget: human beings generally insist on it yet they even have no clue as to what they're speaking approximately so that they are incorrect, the two computing gadget and any incorrect way!

Answer 7

To JEHEN: I absolutely LOVE your answer. You are spot on!
And I liked the poster who said the thing about a "duckblind for racists and bigots to hide in."

Brilliant!

It is so satisfying to know there are still people in this country who don't follow the Homer Simpson stereotype!

Answer 8

I'm not quite sure what the question actually is here, but I am somewhat liberal and call "undocumented workers" what they really are...illegal immigrants.

sorry. =[

Answer 9

PC is just another form of censorship. One more thing that the libs think would be better if they could step on our first amendment.

Answer 10

Bill and Hillary Clinton