will political correctness eventually destroy America?

Answer 1

Destroy America? Where's the common sense here?

Most of what passes for political correctness is common politeness; you treat others as you would expect to be treated.

Other types of speech censorship are cases of your opinion contradicting the accepted norm. Nothing wrong with voicing your opinion; it's called freedom of speech. I'd certainly say there are plenty of contradictory opinions here. You might have to logically defend that opinion - could be a difficult stretch for some.

What passes for "political correctness" would be different at a Democrat convention than at a Republican convention, but there'd be no lack of examples at either.

Answer 2

What are you referring to as "Political Correctness"?

What most people refer to as PC, my grandfather, a traditional conservative, who I spent most of my time with as a child, and respected very much, called manners, and would slap me out of my boots, if I didn't mind them.

Personally, I think If you are willing to take the beat down for offending someone, then you should be able to say anything you want. If what you said just happens to be out of line, the police should look the other way while the person smashes your teeth down your throat.
And if you cannot act civilized in front of young children, you should be put in a place, that you can act as uncivilized all you want, but cannot harm anyone but yourself.

It is a complete shock to me, that most of the people who are opposed to being civilized and minding one's manners, are the same people trying to claim a monoply on morals and responsibility.

Answer 3

Politicians acting incorrectly have already destroyed much as for being pc at the local level I think its hogwash. If a person is offended by accurate descriptions of something they dont belong here.

Answer 4

WOW ! a lot of yes answers...Political correctness a product of tolerance, personally I can't take that question as not implying the question "will tolerance eventually destroy America?"




I vote no...it won't.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I doubt political correctness will destroy America. If we can survive the pet rock, we can survive anything.

Answer 7

PC behavior destroys people's ability to think and reason analytically. They just develop a knee-jerk reaction to certain ideas without even putting any mental effort into it.

Here's a test: ask someone to say one positive thing about Nazi Germany. People are so conditioned to think in PC terms that they can't even formulate one coherent thought on the matter. Now, as a matter of record, I abhor what the Nazis did, not just to the Jews, and to the supposedly "inferior races" but their whole concept of "might makes right".

Now, let me remove the constraints of Political Correctness and say something positive about the Nazi regime. Even though they were fighting for something we now consider evil, from their point of view they were fighting against decadence and forces that conspired to keep them weak. There was a small band of Nazi youth, about 500 of them I believe, who fought with a bravery we can't even imagine. They were just kids, many just barely teenagers, and yet they managed to stop the advance of the Communist army into Berlin for almost a week. Can you even conceive of the strength of will and dedication that required? And these were just kids, most about 10-18 years old.

Compare that with the typical bored, pampered, directionless, overweight, Game Boy-addicted kid today. If those same brave German youth had been fighting to save America, we'd be praising them in song and immortalizing them in statues! They were heroes trying desperately to save their country from the scourge of the Communists.

Imagine if America had lost the Cold War, and the USSR controlled most of the planet. All textbooks are subsequently rewritten to conform to the Communist party line. One day, a brave teacher asks his students to name one good thing about capitalism. Guess what? Due to PC behavior, not one student can even conceive of such a blasphemous thing! Capitalism......good? No! That was exploitation of the workers. Unmitigated greed. It was all bad.

See my point?

This is why PC behavior is destroying America. It's crippling our ability to think rationally and see things as they really are.

Answer 8

laws about them? it will take too long for them to destroy america. they are so many other things that will do it first.

the general attitude about it? the free market will dictate. people who get fed up will be upset and vote with their wallets.

Answer 9

No, socialism will. Political correctness is just silly but harmless, for those of us who ignore it.

Answer 10

YES, THE DEMOCRATS LIVE FOR THAT DAY, TO DESTROY AMERICA. DEMOCRATS WANT TO MAKE THERE OWN LAWS USING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.