Is this the beginning of complete political correctness?
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Beginning? Where have you been? It might be the culmination.
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I am a Liberal, but the political correctness has truly gotten out of hand, it is to the point now where it actually infringes on freedom of speech, and that is what we are all about defending!
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I think that political correctness here would be just not bringing negative attention to those areas. Being politically correct is just a modern way of saying BE POLITE!!!!
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here here there is too much political correctness within the british isles just now.\nim begining to feel discramanated against for being non muslim
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I understand what you mean...\n\nAt first glance it appears as if they were trying to be politically correct. I personally would appreciate that openness of mind.\n\nHowever, we can only guess their intentions. We don't know these people, and if they are really open minded or were just being plain unpleasant. \n\nIs this openness of mind unlike them?
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I tend to agree with you on this one.  On issues like race, I think you're right -- America makes TOO much of an effort to be 'polite', when really all that does is separate everyone even more.\n\nOn social issues though, I think being politically correct isn't such a bad thing.  You really don't want to offend someone on something such as abortion or gay rights.  You wouldn't want to call gay people an offensive term.
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This question can be answered with one word: Power.\n\nPolitical correctness has become no less than speech control and even thought control in today's society. We're opening the doors to the new thought police under the guise of not offending anyone. It's a way of spreading (generally far left wing) political ideas through simple modifications of words and phrases. For example, it's no longer PC to say "illegal immigrant." The term is now "migrant worker" for someone who *broke the law* to enter this country. Yet, somehow, the word "illegal" doesn't fly to describe these people. Go figure. It's easy to twist "not offending anyone" into pushing an agenda.\n\n(By the way, before you accuse me of being a radical right winger, I'm a free thinking liberal pagan from Berkeley, California. I simply believe in freedom.)
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To be "correct" is to be right - without error.\n\nTo be "politically correct" is to be right, without offending anyone.
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The line should have been drawn 20 years ago in the infancy of political correctness. I think it's too late to get rid of it. It's already caused irreparable damage to society.
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I could see if you were being vulger or using a lot of profanity, just for the fact that there are some very young people who use this site, however, the question that you had on here that was censored was not of any distaste. It was certainly retarded, and it had no relevence to anything, but it was not something that needed to be censored. We live in a country that was at one time "Free". It has now become so politically correct you cant say or do anything without offending someone.
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They are turned loose on society, as they are now perfectly normal thanks to 'political correctness'.
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I was with you in agreement until you tried saying being politically correct has anything to do with some sort of conspiracy movement of the left towards communism.\n\nYou are off base as the reasons behind being politically correct.\n\nTeaching ppl to be sensitive to others is a healthy thing.\n\nUsing terminology that is of a negative tone is detrimental to society. For example, I can't stand to hear the phrase, "runs like a girl." unless it is actually about someone running I guess. But most of the time it is referring to running away like a coward. That always ticks me off when I believe women have more courage than men when it comes for standing up and fighting for what we believe in at all cost.\n\nWith all that said though, it can be taken to the extreme. And I have no clue what has happen to the phrase, "sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me."\n\nThat teaches us to let negative things bounce off us and that we choose to let somebody's elses opinion of us hurt us or not. We seem to have lost that mentality.\n\nSo you see, being politcally correct has nothing to do with any agenda whatsoever. It is about being sensitive and courteous.. an idealism that the rightwing has seemed to have lost.
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I have never been 'politically correct" it is nothing more than a way to a pamper a persons feelings of self doubt.\n\nAnd by the way...try not to pay any attention to her. she will go away eventually.
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Political Correctness is simply a means of limiting someone elses freedoms so that you can practice your own.\n\nIt serves no legitimate purpose and is actually detrimental.  People don't change how they think, they simply go underground.\n\nAs a child, I knew that narrow minded, bigoted people used racial slurs.  It made them easy to identify.  Now, you don't hear the slurs, but you can't find the bigots either.\n\nThey're still there, and still practicing bigotry.  We just can't find them now.  \n\nThank Political Correctness.
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I am VERY sick of being politically correct. Everyone seems so sensitive, women, blacks, Mexicans, gays, everyone. Funny the only people we never have to be sensitive to is White Christian Men, because they can be ripped on all the time. Funny how that works.
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I have just read your link and up to a point I do agree with you. \n\nIt isn't just about the black community though it is. I think it is just fashion in general. There are so many people wanting to look the part but you should never judge a person by the way they dress!\n\nAs for the posting above, we have to be careful what we say because people do get offended.  I get constantly offended when I read people telling me how wonderful God is, or I will go to hell if I don't believe etc, but they never seem to stop that do they!!\nI think all this political correctness has taken away our freedom of speech. It makes me laugh though that if you are black and you call a 'brother' the N word that is acceptable, but if I was to call someone by that name I would get told off and called racist. It is either right or wrong. There should not be rules for one culture and not for another. That is another form of segregation... them and us!!\n\nThere are nice ways and nasty ways of asking a question or placing a statement but there is always someone you will offend. There are many questions I would love to ask about the black culture and the asian cultures etc. all are totally innocent but I am scared to ask incase people don't like the way I have asked it and I get called a racist.\n\nThe whole world has gone crazy and it does annoy me!
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Does anyone know the origins of Political Correctness? Who originally developed it and what was its purpose?\nI looked it up. It was developed at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, which was founded in 1923 and came to be known as the "Frankfurt School." It was a group of thinkers who pulled together to find a solution to the biggest problem facing the implementers of communism in Russia.\n\nThe problem? Why wasn't communism spreading? \n\nTheir answer? Because Western Civilization was in its way. \n\nWhat was the problem with Western Civilization? Its belief in the individual, that an individual could develop valid ideas. At the root of communism was the theory that all valid ideas come from the effect of the social group of the masses. The individual is nothing. \n\nAnd they believed that the only way for communism to advance was to help (or force, if necessary) Western Civilization to destroy itself. How to do that? Undermine its foundations by chipping away at the rights of those annoying individuals.\n\nOne way to do that? Change their speech and thought patterns by spreading the idea that vocalizing your beliefs is disrespectful to others and must be avoided to make up for past inequities and injustices. \n\nAnd call it something that sounds positive: "Political Correctness."\n\nInspired by the brand new communist technique, Mao, in the 1930s, wrote an article on the "correct" handling of contradictions among the people. "Sensitive training" – sound familiar? – and speech codes were born.\n\nIn 1935, after Hitler came to power, the Frankfurt School moved to New York City, where they continued their work by translating Marxism from economic to cultural terms using Sigmund Freud's psychological conditioning mechanisms to get Americans to buy into Political Correctness. In 1941, they moved to California to spread their wings.\n\nBut Political Correctness remains just what it was intended to be: a sophisticated and dangerous form of censorship and oppression, imposed upon the citizenry with the ultimate goal of manipulating, brainwashing and destroying our society.\n\nThe PC U.S.\n\nWith profound dismay, I have seen how the scourge of Political Correctness has taken hold in the U.S. It is very well entrenched in our educational system, at scientific, religious and community levels, the media, the workplace and even our government.\n\nIt is changing the American society from within, and the citizens of this nation are increasingly censoring themselves and losing their freedom of speech out of fear of Political Correctness repression. \n\nIt is the nature of Western Civilization to be civilized – respectful of others and concerned with correcting injustices. We don't need Political Correctness to make us think we are not civilized on our own and must have our thoughts and words restricted.\n\nIn December 2001, in Kensington, Md., an annual firefighters Santa Claus festivity to light the Christmas tree was objected to by two families. The city council, in the name of Political Correctness, voted to ban Santa from the parade. Fortunately, due to citizen outcry, the decision was reversed in the end and many people protested by dressing up as Santa.\n\nLogically and respectfully, how can one person's benign icon be objectionable to the point of banishment? Offer to add other people's icons. Make it a broader celebration. That's the Perfectly Correct American way.\n\nThe rulers of Political Correctness reach absurd levels when they refer to the betrayal of America by the spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg – executed in 1953 – as "non-traditional patriotism"!\n\nWe see shameful situations created in our schools and universities in America that have fallen prey to Political Correctness. Some professors, students and publications are being attacked for expressing a point of view that differs from that imposed by a fanatical far left