How is political correctness not been detrimental to our soceity?
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It's not detrimental-- it's only free expression and a right to choose.  Etiquette and diplomacy never hurt anyone.\n\nAmerica could go back to the days when Natives were heathens and their skins were worn as coats in the winter, if you'd rather.  They would probably treat all non-Conservatives that way.  Tar and feather, hang, shackles, whatever, for looking differently or acting differently.\n\nBrash thinking is passe.  Get with the times.
893604
Political correctness.
121606
Respectful?  Always.  Politically correct?  Never.
747119
You are sooooo  right.  \n\nI'd rather be right .... . . . .  .than to be politically correct.
641971
I think it's a crock...Political Correctness run amuck.
526226
I agree. We, as people, waste so much time stereotyping, judging, and even hating other for their heritage. Just think if we, as a society, embraced one anothers cultures and found commonalities what we could do. We'd have so much more fun! We'd solve more important problems in the world if most of us weren't focused so much on race and ethnicity. We fix our political policies such that everyone we be treated fairly. In short, Racism definitely hinders our progress as a society.
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No. Having a free society requires us to occasionally put up with the fact that other people who have repugnant opinions are just as entitled to speak their mind as we are. What we don't have to do is take the repugnance itself lying down. It's fine to challenege someone's "stupid racist remarks" whenever they're made, whether "on TV" or elsewhere, and we/you should whenever we see it. Free speech is not the problem, letting racists go unchallenged is.
361516
Yes. Too many forums are "monitored" and unpopular points of view, even if unoffensive, are often removed. Political Correctness also really needs to go, IMO. People should not have such thin shells when it comes to things that "offend" them.
87032
Whether or not you believe in evolution, etc, you have to admit that in many cases, 'political correctness' does it's very best to hide the truth. It also does alot to silence those who merely seek it.
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Permitted due to our civil rights, and non-discrimination.\nWhy it takes so much concern?\nPeople are still not openminded.
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The significance of that question not only lies within the boundaries of the United States, but in all countries.\n\nIt seems that people of any political persuasion deem it necessary to oppose any idea that other parties implement or come up with, even if they themselves were thinking it before hand.\n\nThere are good Liberals and bad Liberals just as there are good Conservatives and bad ones. The general populous can state an opinion and for the most part debate it on a level field with usual successful results, it's just that in order to totally screw things up, those debating have "politician" attached to their title.\n\nWe all as humans, seem to believe that we are always right while the other person is usually wrong, and therefore give little heed to what others deem important. Human nature not only makes us ignorant to things being said around us, it also gives us the "pride" of never accepting responsibility for our actions.\n\nThe old saying of equal representation gives all people the rights to speak and be heard...it just doesn't give us the right to have our opinions accepted.
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Freedom of Speech is what I believe you are referring to.  Political Correctness was invented by universities that obviously have a lot of time on their hands.  Freedom of Speech is written into the Constitution of the United States and is and should be looked at with more forethought than what a bunch of busy bodies in and around a college campus thought was/is important.
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For one simple reason ;  as long as political powers are capable of altering peoples perceptions and divide them into groups, they can gain political power.  By inspiring the perception of seperation between ethnic gropus they create an us vs. them mentality.  They then use this mentality to inspire people that only those who created this false seperation can represent them fairly. So while you are offended for what people say about your group, they feel the same for what some in your group said of them.  Ridiculous isn't it?
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Outdated laws and political correctness have entirely and absolutely nothing to do with each other!\n\nOutdated laws exist because they are rarely if ever utilised and the body of law is so vast that they are probably long forgotten... \n\nWhen a situation arises that they may come into play and are now seen to be unjust then the government will usually legislate to amend and/or overrule the prior law in that area...\n\nLaw is an evolving process that is in a state of continual change... it just takes time to get to all the changes that need to occur and in law that time is often measures in hundreds of years not one or two...
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Trying to respect everyones' rights is a fool's errand. There are lots of people who will never think for themeselves unless you rattle their cage a little from time to time. Plus it's just plain fun to offend people, so long as you do it with a little respect.
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Yes!  It's political correctness gone mad!  Everyone is so obsessed with p.u.s.s.y footing around all the minorities of the world and changing this and that so as not to offend their supposedly fragile sense of self worth.  It makes me mad as Hell to see all of the current beliefs, ideals and interpretations on our own perception of the the world messed with and changed in order to incorporate the views of the few.  We should all stick to what we know and believe in regardless of what others think.
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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.