| SpokenTruth said: In that case, all political correctness is doing is trying to teach people not to be an asshole when discussing sensitive topics. You can discuss illegal immigration, gay marriage, religion, terrorism, etc...without being hateful in the process. It's when you use language that is racist that you get called a racist. If you want the freedom to say racists things you better be preprared to accept the fact people get call you racist. Simple as that. You can't have freedom of speech to be racist and then tell others they don't have the freedom of speech to call you out on it. You are also confusing political correctness with liberal policy. Either because you're not aware of the difference or you've been raised in a home that teaches it (sadly, this works both ways on much of the problems we have world wide). If a liberal calls you sexist for not accepting abortion, that's not political correctness. That is the right of the left to debate your policy (just as it is the right of the, uh, right, to debate policy on the left). Political correctness does not tell you that you cannot discussion abortion...or even hold a policy against it. Political correctness is only about framing that disucssion in terminology and tone that isn't abrasive, insulting, disparaging or hateful. Non-PC discussion: Only sluts get abortions. PC discussion: Women with loose morals are more likely to seek out abortions. Your topic is the same yet instead of sounding hateful and instigating an argument, you've opened dialog that others on both sides of the debate will be more willing to engage in. Again, it's nothing more than framing the discussion so you don't come off as an asshole. |
Maybe you should try spending some time holding conservative viewpoints see how political correctness is used against you. You will never see the ugly side of it if you only hold left-wing values. In Canada our elected representatives are not even allowed to discuss the question of when life begins because it is considered to be a "hurtful" topic regardless of how polite you are. We have a tribunals who actively censor "hurtful" speech and we have had priests get prosecuted just for speaking in favor of traditional marriage because it is deemed hurtful to same-sex couples. What about the feelings of the hundreds of thousands of Christians who can no longer safely express their religious values in a public forum? In Canada political correctness is enforced by law, in the US it is enforced by the media which alters public opinion, but the effect is the same: conservative views are severely stifled and not welcome no matter how politely they are expressed.
You may think that political correctness provides fairness for everybody but in actuality it only provides protection for those who hold liberal values, conservatives get stomped on. It's not politically incorrect to call somebody a racist who isn't actually a racist, because nobody actually looks into it to find out what the true intentions of the person are. Furthermore, you hear words like sexist, homophobe and racist hundreds of times a day but how many times do you hear words like: anti-Christian bigot, manhater, or somebody who is racist against white people? There is no politically correct vocabulary to protect these people because the political establishment is against all things traditional and these people mean nothing to them. You have no right to insist that political correctness is fair unless you have spent time on our side of the fence. You may think that things are good right now, but from our point of view things are horrible because you can't even talk about the problems without getting blasted with some politically correct label like "racist" that doesn't even describe your true intentions. This is why so many people turned to Donald Trump, when he gets called a racist without actually making any racist remarks we can all relate to the abuse that he is sbujected to because we have been subjected to it as well. Donald Trump is our way of letting you know how bad things are, those in power don't get to ignore half the population and insist that we are being treated fairly when things are so unjust.
