I pretty much agree with you (OP) and NightDragon83.......That's why (currently) I tend to hate political correctness with a passion.
(like you stated) Instead of it being used help benefit society, it's baing used to suppress the rest of us on what we get to say. You can no longer say things like gay, fag, or even negro (which is literally spanish for black) or you will get a lot of flak (no pun intended). To me, PC it's just a another way (psychologically) to suppress that part of the mind where the it is just too painful to confront. So you block it instead of confronting it.
It really does create double standards which I also hate. Group A can't say "this," but group B can. All they are, are elitists. They don't like it when others don't say it the way they want it so they put a gun to their head (figuratively) and force them to comply.
