A comment on all races in the US (mature answers only)?

Question

Please read before you post answers, and no ignorant answers, only honest ones please:

Through life experience, education, personal experience, and even reading so many blogs such as on yahoo answers, youtube, and even in the news, wouldn't it be safe to say while we are all human, you can comment on race from a cultural perspective? Meaning; not everyone from a certain ethnic or racial background behaves or is a certain way, but when a majority is (and knowing there is a minority who isn't), why is it so bad when someone asks a legitimate question? I don't mean some of the racist rants like I've seen here, but when someone asks why so many ___ or why do some _____, people get all offended and post rude answers? (I'm not counting trolls because they are just stupid).

I think political correctness, while its good for not judging people, gets in the way of the truth often times. I think everyone is diverse, yes, but I do believe its okay to comment on a majority in society.

What's your honest opinion?

Answer 1

Same reason I find it inaccurate when people go onto a category and use "why do men cheat?" now, not only are we lumping all races together, but all the men in all the races....it's ridiculous. If you have a question, try to make it as specific as possible without assuming everyone who wears green does so because of their race. If asking a question about a culture, you can be more specific than purely race, it really is over-generalizing. For example: take the North and South in the Eastern United States....just those two areas alone contain many cultural DIFFERENCES, so if you asked a blanket question about whites or blacks in the Eastern US, you would get different answers based on where they were brought up and/or lived.

Answer 2

I think that people mistakenly assume that they are being judged whenever someone makes a political correctness faux pas. Sometimes, they are indeed being judged. Other times, they aren't.

Basically, political correctness has become an epidemic of the masses. God forbid anyone break these hallowed rules of non-judgmentality- when, if we are willing to move out of the darkness of ignorance, we have to be willing to admit the truth about human nature, in that we judge others.

I am opposed to political correctness. But that fact notwithstanding, it is interesting to see how easily certain varieties of people get their panties all up in a wad faster than do others. Isn't it?

Stereotypes are often false. But if they were false utterly, then why would intelligent people allow them to proliferate?

Sometimes our perceptions are correct, or at least have a modicum of truth to them.

But then again, it is precarious to automatically judge entire cultures or groups without a justified reason or basis for the judgment.

I despise cliches peradventure as much as I despise political correctness- but at the risk of hypocrisy, "people are people."

Depending on how you would define hypocrisy, everyone is a hypocrite. But on the other end of the spectrum, there are few who may be thrown into that classification. But at some point, because we are imperfect beings, we say one thing and do another. It is inevitable, like (again another cliche) taxes and the grave.

It even seems like positive characteristics are frowned upon. If you express a point of view that encompasses a race or a culture, they are quick to be offended. Why? Are we trained to whine and complain when we don't like to hear the truth about other people's viewpoints? Why?

I think it is more important to pose a question to those people who get so easily offended. They need to try some introspection, and try to see why it is that they are offended by a certain notion or remark.

Maybe it's because they can see a small component of truth there.

Answer 3

PC should be renamed to BS. I mean, I don't give a crap what the Hell country/ethnic group/skin color you belong in, all I see are humans. Worse still is racial slurs and that whole double standard. Heaven forbid a white guy calls a black one the N word, but it's perfectly okay for that black guy to call the white one the C word?

Hell, I've been called all kinds of things. I don't care to be " respected " by PC terms. Saying them to me just tells me you're afraid to speak your own mind. All the same, if you get offended by not being addressed by a PC, you're gonna have a hard time proving to me that you have much maturity, and possibly intelligence.

There is a simple rule of superiority to determine if anyone is better than another: The worst of any given group has to be better than the best of any other. Since every group is bound to have at least 1 total idiot, all groups of people are on equal ground.

Sadly, there's also bound to be some high-and-mighty bigot that looks at that and thinks " How DARE you insinuate we're equal to [other group]! " Meh, humans...

The solution is simple, just do away with all PC stuff. Everyone give their honest opinions about others, and if you don't like an opinion of a given person, just don't bother with them ever again, and we can all skip all this " Your kind sucks. " BS.

Answer 4

That is why a statement is called a 'politically correct' statement rather than a statement of true fact. We live in a world of babies who feel they have the right to never be offended and that includes when truth offends them.

Answer 5

For the most part now-a-days people hate to get put into boxes. Especially if those boxes have been ridiculed or insulted in the past. People can't change their inner nature much but they love to change their outer appearance very often.