Report: Politically correct is such an innocent term. How can anyone be against something so friendly, something that is supposed to encourage harmony and peace between all people? My answer is Ha! Although I do agree that kindness, respect, and courtesy in our everyday life are to be promoted, it seems to me that they lose much of their meaning if they are oppressively forced upon us by political correctness. That is why there are no examples in modern times that are quite so hopeless to me as political correctness.
We are becoming increasingly censored in what we can say, write, or do because of this thing we call political correctness. Racial and minority groups are slowly but surely dictating what the rest of us can say, how we can say it, and where we can say it.
Some changes brought by political correctness seem long overdue, such as eliminating the widespread use of offensive racial slurs. Other proposed modifications, such as calling a
They lead the group in singing the first two words ---"O Canada"--- then stop and motion for everyone to stop singing and sit down. The two then explain that "O Canada" is the only phrase in the song that will not offend anyone:
So much of the politically correct approach to dealing with race, such as the hypersensitivity of groups, the playing games with inventing new uses of words and hassling those who won't submit to using the new vocabulary, of boosting togetherness inside "oppressed" groups, is so unfriendly, and unconstructive, and so it is directly opposite to the goal of getting along, treating each other as individuals and eventually forgetting about race.
* "From far and wide" offends people of large size.
While for whites to be vocal about taking pride in their ethnicity has become socially unaccepted, minorities are encouraged to indulge every idea of the superiority of their group that crosses their minds. How is this helpful?
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