Is the innocuous word 'pedophile' an example of political correctness?
817777
Wow I never thought  of it like that.\nBut I did always wonder what was up with the whole foot relevance.
23349
Just political correctness out of control!
975854
Politically Correctness is backwards.  I don't mean oxi-moron, I dissapprove of anarchy.  If everyone were to be truly politically correct, language would die.
600969
"Politically correct" is an American idea formed by a bunch of Democrat puzsies.  Mexico is a third-world narco trafficking shithole. The corruption goes all the way to the top.  A 'cocalero' government. Who cares what those jackasses do, as long as they don't do it here.
895171
I do agree that Political Correctness is bad but it started way before Clinton became President. It started in colleges in California. Stanford University could have slowed the PC rage if not nipped it in the bud if they had some balls. In the early to mid 80's, they changed their sports nickname from the Cardinals (a bird on their helmets) to the Cardinal (a shade of red). The Catholic church said the name Cardinals was offensive to them, even though there was a bird on the helmets. They demanded Stanford change the nickname. Stanford relented and dropped the "S" and that satisfied the Catholic church. If Stanford had stood up to them, I think PC would not have gotten the death grip it has on the US and now the rest of the World. The cowardice of Stanford basically told the PC idiots that they can   b i t c h and moan about the tiniest thing and get results.
1031157
Yes absolutely. Kids are too precious to be put at any kind of risk, the information needs to come straight from the police in a monthly bulletin available only from police stations so innocent men or women didnt get accused. After that the real paedophiles are fair game, they deserve all and more of whats coming to them.
575122
I'm gay and I'm not offended by the word itself. When it is used as a descriptive term for my sexual predisposition I am not bothered by it. When it is used as a derogatory insult then I am bothered, but I also consider that the person using it that way is an uninformed individual who probably has some serious insecurities concerning his/her own sexuality. I feel sorry those people and their sexual partners. \n\nSincerely,\nTerry
24053
Political correctness is a term generally used to disparage efforts to raise awareness about and eliminate social and political biases in language and other forms of representation. The term also appears in the adjectival form politically correct (often abbreviated PC). While it frequently refers to a linguistic phenomenon, it is also extended to cover political ideology and behavior.
986388
I guess because alot of people don't understand what our military people are doing when they put their lives on the line. The words 'Politically Correct' comes to my mind. It seems that anything these days that refers to politics, the military, race, color, gender, etc. etc., is used and distorted by anyone who feels that they have been 'wronged' by having to see, hear, or experience something other than what they want to. We have become a country of the "Offended", the slightest thing can set someone off just because they don't believe in what someone else is saying. That is one of the reasons why America is so great, but at the same time, it has been mis-construed, twisted and deformed so much that anyone can be set off by something seen as 'offensive', or 'wrong' in their minds. I don't know what the content was of your entry that would cause you to be cited for a violation, but like I said, someone out there felt that it was wrong, and if it was harmless, that is too bad. I'm sorry to hear that.
1053260
I think political correctness must have a limit. If you are gay and Christian, then you must admit that engaging in such acts are sins.\n\nThere is no middle ground, no 'practising gay' should say Christianity allows homosexual acts.\n\nBeing gay is your right, but Christianity (The Bible) has a right of it's own to condemn such acts, as contrary to their teachings and that of God's.
391538
I agree except for one thing. I'm absolutely not bothered by discussions on cheating, either.\n\nI think censorship is never acceptable. I don't like it either when they replace 'dirty words' by asterisks. Like nobody knew what the actual words are! Like children are going to be hurt by reading something! If they're not ready for it, they won't even understand it! And the words themselves hurt no one. It's the ideas behind them that can hurt, and children just don't give words the same meanings we adults do. Doesn't it seem we're only protecting the children's parents from the awkwardness of having to explain something they're not ready to talk about? We aren't protecting children. We are protecting ourselves from children! Shame on us!\n\nBesides, who can be so prude to be upset by the words, rather than (if we ARE going to be upset) by the concept or the situation? I mean, you may be offended by the image of, say, a particular sexual activity. But it's the act what offends you. Not the word or words used to name that act. So, if you can't read the word, all that can happen is that you're going to identify the missing or censored word from the context, and that will offend you, too.
777316
When you set up a site that encourages childish behavior (thumbs up, thumbs down, report abuse), you are guaranteed to see childish behavior.\n\nI'm pretty sure it crosses all party lines and might not even be politically motivated at all.
1135130
yes we are too politcally correct, things like this let two pedo's go into a park with a video camera to film kids.  When a) the are on parole in a bail hostel and b) one of them had only just been released on bail again the same day charged with new offences that he'd committed since his release from prison!!  Makes you f**king sick that scum like this have more protection than our kids..  same goes for smack heads, thieves.. armed robbers etc..
405693
yes, all of them perverts, homosexuals, child molesters, male prostitues,  I am happy to include all of them in that verse.\n\nAnd yes, of course homoseuxality is an unnatural act. That is so obvious, you have to laught that anyone would even try to defend it.
508074
Politacally correct covers many areas.Ethics,morals,mannerism,etc.If you are politically correct then noone is insulted by your actions.No elbows on the table while eating,racial slurs,combing your hair in public...the list goes on and on and sometimes borders on absurd.Oops that statement was politically incorrect.
528391
Although I'm a firm believer in freedom of speech I find it quite disturbing that people don't have a problem with using this word in front of anybody, at any time.\nIt negates any sign of intelligence that you would not find it in your vocabulary to communicate disgust, anger and other emotions without resorting to a word that literally means fornicate or sexual intercourse. Aren't our brains a little more evolved than that?\nIf you want to use it, you have the right, but other people have the right NOT to hear it everywhere!
495887
it is rude to label anything in a derogatory manner.  I am gay, and i do occasionally say it when something is just over the top "gay"... and I especially use it when I see my straight friends (who have made fun of me in the past) do something effiminate.  However that still doesn't make it right.  I can't even discuss here the things that could be labeled in politically offensive manners, but think about religious affiliations and race issues....