Does this extend to us all? has your right of freedom of expression been eroded by PC ?
2007-09-08 08:36:22 · 15 answers · asked by Firefly 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
PC will be our downfall!!
2007-09-08 08:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
I don't really feel like becoming a martyr anytime soon. ..But I DO indeed support your right to say it, yes. I am a major proponent of free speech. And my opinion has always been that yes, certain opinions can be extreme in a very negative sense, but trying to gag people is NOT the way to go about it! Say, for instance, if a group of Nazis and racists, (something which I am very much against), wanted to hold a demo, I think they should be allowed to. It would be much more effective if one, instead of trying to prevent them from doing so, arranged an ENORMOUS counter-demo, and showed that one despised what they stand for in THAT sense instead.
2016-05-19 21:28:43 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are the type to submit to political correctness, you will neither make such a statement nor act on it. This is nothing new. Most people agree there are things that they will not say or don't want other people saying, and many of those will defend to your death their right to keep you from saying it. Nothing new there either.
2007-09-08 08:55:00 · answer #3 · answered by thylawyer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Political correctness is not the problem. The problem is that most people cannot handle others voicing a different opinion and react badly. The art of discussion and debate has been lost and I think it has a lot to do with the mass media. People do not know how to talk to each other and express and/or accept another view without getting offended and angry.
2007-09-08 08:51:20 · answer #4 · answered by cutsie_dread 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
PC has man fascists I think. It has become popular to the liberal crowd more thean to any other. It is designed for the express pupose of not offending anyone by englulfing the belief that their realy isn't any right or worng just different shades of gray. The libs preach free speech but only when you agree with them. Like global warming or the war on terror their is no more room to debate on either you either believe as they do or you are a right wing radical raciest homaphobe. If they are so much for free speech why do they fight so hard to bring back the fairness act in TV and radio? It's simple, they can't get an audiance of their own so they want the gobernment to force them on us. So much for free speech.
2007-09-08 08:53:33 · answer #5 · answered by crusinthru 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I defend Osama's right to call on Christians to convert to Islam. If anyone tries to force it, he needs to be squashed like a cockroach. Political correctness only goes one way. The left says awful things about the Right. If the right says things in any way offensive. ... well , Just don't. Remember the Macaca incident? One word was all it took. Remember the Heimie town comment. No one but the right cared.
2007-09-08 10:03:46 · answer #6 · answered by Homeschool produces winners 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, PC is not the problem. It never was. Our freedoms are being destroyed before our eyes and hardly no one notices it. They think we are giving them up "temporarily" to have extra security. Like Benjamen Franklin said "Those who will give up a little liberty for a little security, deserves neither and will lose both."
2007-09-08 08:44:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
PC and the opposite...people who reject PC and graduate immediately to rude. There are so many people who can't take opposing views, even those expressed respectfully and even those they've asked for. They ask something and really only want to hear validation of their own beliefs. It seems more people than not really just want freedom of speech for people that agree with their own ideology. It's freedom of speech for them to ask and answer, it's freedom of speech for them to rant and rave and insult. But when someone who they disagree with tries to do any of that it should be silenced.
2007-09-08 08:44:44 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I will never agree with the Liberals. I absolutely abhor the fact that they would take away my freedoms. Freedom of expression might possibly be one of them since they are for big government. How in good conscience can I defend their right to try to destroy our country?
2007-09-08 08:47:31 · answer #9 · answered by Moody Red 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Thankfully, in the eyes of the law, no. But we're headed in that direction very quickly.
2007-09-08 08:51:09 · answer #10 · answered by skullklipz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The words of a French Liberal Humanist applies to us all.
But the right to free speech has been attacked daily by the conservatives and their propagandists for years.
2007-09-08 08:43:01 · answer #11 · answered by ? 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋