Has political correctness started ruining society?

Question

If your child performs badly in class & you scold and tell her that she needs to perform better like the class toppers who got A+ grade - then she replies back saying that "stop being so mean to me - I have got the same scores as almost the whole class, only two or three people get top scores & in all other classes it is the same way! My performance is normal only, so stop generalizing." - if your kid just said that, wouldn't you get angry and dole out severe punishment to her?

But almost all adults these days are saying the same thing - they are using political correctness as a way of defending their faults. Don't you agree? In this case shouldn't the adults receive the same extent of punishment as the child would recieve?

Answer 1

this question is offensive. You should rephrase it with less offensive language.

Answer 2

I also remember the country as a boy. It was a country in which rank racism flourished with Jim Crow laws and where Blacks were still lynched,raped and generally used and abused. It was a country in which hundreds of women died after being getting an illegal abortion. It was a country in which child abuse and molestations was rampant but never spoken about ,never reported. It was a country in which there was no social security or medicare and the lives of older citizens was extremely difficult and where any medical situation meant financial ruin for many. It was a country in which almost everything that we see and hear going on today went on then but it was all kept secret and covered up The hypocricy was simply monumental. It was a country in which the physical,mental and emotional abuse of women ,children and often men was commonplace and accepted by most in the society .I guess they were afraid of raising "wusses". It was a country in which homosexuals were regularly beaten up and often killed. It was not liberalism that so profoundly negatively changed some aspects of our society but rather simple greed and materialism and any person who believes such silliness is simply irrelevant. Parents of all political stripes began to abrogate their all important role/obligation as parents. In order to get that second SUV both parents began to work and the children were left increasingly to their own devises.Parents allowed and in many cases demanded that the school system take over THEIR JOB .The school system soon became a place for baby sitting,disciplining,sex education,moral/ethical instruction etc etc. These parents did however realize that their neglect of their children and their responsibilities as parents was a fact/reality but instead of correcting the situation these parents, driven by quilt,became ludicrously permisisive as a means of assuaging their quilt which just made the problem so much worse. These reprehensible parents (as many were and are) were more concerned about their children "liking them" and "being their friend" and in the process totally abrogated the very essence of what parenting is. Only an ignorant pathetic political partisan would point a finger at liberalism or whatever for the negatives we have deveoped in our society. On balance ,our society is much better today then yesterday .As we age,we tend to forget the horrors of yesterday and idealize the time of our youth .As the world gets ever more complicated,the cowards and the incompetent cannot/will not face the challenges of today but run back to the "comfort" of another era eventhough that era was worse then the one they are living in.

Answer 3

I don't know about SEVERE punishment, but she would have had something coming for talking back like that! Yes, the PC'ers are bringing us down by offering way too many excuses and absolutions for mediocrity. I think that underachievers end up getting punished by the crappy lives they live, so I wouldn't worry about punishing the adults, just on helping the kids learn that their lives can be better. That being said, you are totally correct to demand that your child do her best and to stay on her until she does! If more mothers would regulate the way you do, I wouldn't have a job and that's all right with me!

Btw, I AM a liberal, I just like my liberalness with a healthy dose of common sense!

Answer 4

I don't entirely understand your analogy, bu I will agree that a child should be punished for actively accepting mediocrity and following the crowd instead of trying to excel, and that political correctness is ruining . . . well, everything.

Answer 5

I agree with your comments.

Only the sheep in society care about being PC. Personally I could care less if I offend someone being truthful. I prefer to be treated in the same manner.

Answer 6

Apparently you don't know what political correctness is...

language that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense

You are talking about lowered standards and expectations and underachievement

Also known as, No child left behind

Answer 7

Children develop @ different rates, mentally, physically, socially. You must push them to be the best, but shouldn't punish them when they are not. Teach them that to be a winner they must know how to lose and to truly be the best they must know what it is like to be the worst. To be a leader they must know how to follow. GL&GB

Answer 8

I hate political correctness.
I treat people nicely but I'll speak the truth where it needs to be told.
A star for you.

Answer 9

I think it already has ruined society, Happy Turkey based consumption day next thursday, and I hope that your "Holliday" Celebrations go well on christmas day

Answer 10

Yes it is, but you used a poor example.

Answer 11

we tolerate everything in society today, that's why the end of the world is near, we give up on quality and not quantity