Is Political Correctness creating a seething undercurrent of racism?

Question

You can't say this...you can't say that. Who says? Every colour, creed and religious following have, for centuries, nurtured and expressed predisposed opinions about the differences between us all. Nowadays, the thought police and PC brigade want to supress everything natural to free speech . Is this the healthy way forward?

Answer 1

i have been warned for calling my local shopkeeper a paki

work that out,pc madness

Answer 2

There were already laws of slander, libel and common decency before political correctness was adopted. PC isn't a new idea. It stems from 1914 and the later so called "Frankfurt School". PC is simply cultural marxism and attacks freedom of thought, speech and expression as well as deep rooted western traditions.

It is also an ideology and is leading, as all ideologies do, to a totalitarian state - absolute centralised state control.

PC has also given rise to what is termed "positive discrimination", whereby minority groups have been given preferential treatment. This is what causes resentment within the indigenous population of any country and the target of that resentment is usually not the government responsible.

True equality is what we need to strive for, but we are a long way from it. It appears to me that governments can only shift discrimination around rather than eradicate it altogether.

Answer 3

I'm afraid the seething undercurrent of racism has always existed, just ask yourself how many black bosses you've had.
Political correctness is just a benchmark to advertise what is acceptable behaviour, which is sad when once, one of Britains great traits was the politeness of its people.
Britain is a nation built on the integration of a multitude of nationalities and cultures, all of which have added to the recipe that stamps the British people.
To be reasonably politically correct is simply a form of polite respect for your neighbour, all those who eschew the common sense of correct behaviour are arrogant and rude.

Answer 4

Yes, yes yes! Thank you so much for asking this! You can never stop racism, no matter how much you tell people to.

And this sack of bullshit that is political correctness makes things worse. Every form I look at lists about thirty races. About three of those are white. You see, whites don't belong to a race like Asian or African people do - we're just white. No more description is needed.

And there is the question of why they need to know our race. It is because there must be an equal number of people from each race in each job.

This is the stupidist thing on the planet. Since there are bound to be varying numbers of people from each race applying for each job, this means that some applicants will be rejected because they are not of the correct race. So what happens? It becomes racist again. It has gone full circle, only this time it is worse. All the racists will continue to be racist, yet their feelings - however rediculous - will be hidden away.

I hardly feel I need to go on...

Answer 5

In answer to your question 'yes'. The BNP must rub theri hands together everytime an example of the ridiculousness that pervades the Uk gets into the newspapers. All it does is gets people's backs up and the nicest person in the world neds up losing job or being accused of racism when none occured will go and vote BNP.
I think too may politically correct hypersensitives are actually the cause of racism.

Answer 6

I think it is worrying, it's making us really conscious of what we say so we can't just act naturally as we're always thinking of being polite. I teach at a sunday school, and the kids were all about six at the time and we had some very dark children as they'd just emigrated from Africa and were living here, and they were all eating chocolate and I was going around wiping faces and telling them all what mucky pups they were, and one of the kids go "how do you know? you can't see the chocolate on Vitu" and it's hard to know what to say so all us teachers sort of tried changing the subject. But what is the politically correct way of replying to the child? And of course us all changing the subject was probably the worse thing to do because the children may think they are meant to keep hush about that sort of thing and not talk about their differences. I don't get it - but no, it doesn't seem healthy at all.

Answer 7

The problem is that people don't know what the rules are, that they are supposed to live by.
Originally, politeness was all that was required in order to live among most people and this was taught from a very early age, in most normal families.
People used to say "Good morning, or good evening", to
perfect strangers. Today, you must not make eye contact, let alone speak.
If you are a man, you are not supposed to offer your seat on a bus, to a female, or hold open a door, in case they happen to
subscribe to total equality.
I do believe that this situation is unsupportable and will sooner or later backfire, on the mindless "Jobsworths" that
promote it.

Answer 8

I think it encourages poor information and actually separates whole social groups with huge gratuitous swipes! It is also judgemental and works on assumptions. For example my friend was a victim of street robbery (his bag and mobile were stolen). When the police arrived they pressed him to state it was a racially motivated assault (my pal is black).The assault was clearly and acquisitive crime and there was no language or action to indicate otherwise. My friend was really upset that just because he was black the crime had a racial element, he wanted to be treated like any other victim of crime. If the same thing had happend to me would they have asked the same question. I have a northern english accent white skin, am of heavy build with short hair and Israeli! I think unless they questioned me on my ethnic origin then the answer is obvious. My main problem is that while we are being told what to say and what not to say we are missing the real burning issues in our society. Issues like BNP thugs masquerading as politicians, worming their way into our social fabric and the increase in inner city poverty, drug abuse and the alarming rise in knife and gun crime, which is NOT a Black problem it's a culural problem embedded in our society as a result oif ignorance and bigotry.

Answer 9

If political correctness were exercised universally, well then it would be fantastic.

Political correctness however has become a device I can only liken to verbal terrorism.

Certain groups of people (both religious and ethnic) have designated themselves as the ONLY people who are victims of racism. They have in a sense cornered the market on being victims. This gives them the right to say and do anything they like, without being called racist, because in their minds, no one else could possibly be a victim.

If you are the wrong color, you'd better choose your words very carefully, or you will be labled as a rascist....... a fate worse than death, in this day in age.

I have stopped exercising political correctness. I don't feel that I need to censure myself because I have found that inflammatory and derogatory names do not really help me get my point across. In fact, using a disparaging adjective which has been used millions of times before to describe a person only exposes the person who says it as of average (at best) intelligence.

I prefer to create new and insightful ways of conveying to people that they are behaving like AS*H@LES.

Answer 10

It's ridiculous, you can't call a blackboard a blackboard lest it upset a black person; you can't call a chairman a chairman lest it upset the feminists; you can't celebrate Christmas lest it upsets some Moslems.
I won't bow to this pressure, I will keep speaking as I always have.
I will call a married woman Mrs, an unmarried woman Miss,(I won't ever use the feminist Ms) a female actor an actress and a female author an authoress, a fireman and a fire woman fight fires, a policeman and a policewoman uphold the law.
Blackboard and blacklist will remain in my vocabulary and I will remember Christmas as the celebration of Christ's birth.
As for calling bald people 'follically challenged' and short people 'vertically challenged' that is just too ridiculous for words.
I'm un-PC and proud of it.

Answer 11

Yes, political correctness causes anger & resentment by taking freedom of speech a way from White people. Only Whites are forced to be p.c. Minorities can say almost anything they want. I don't understand why more people aren't angry over this.