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Would the world be better off if the whole "politically correct" fad had never come to be? Explain your answer please.
Oooh, that's a tough one, because one needs to define "political correctness" in order to determine if we would be better off without it. It's been (imo) and slow creeping invasion into the American mindset with the purpose of inhibiting peoples' natural tendencies to make value judgements. Which components of political correctness are you referring to, if any?
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1.(of language) not objectionable, especially in terms of avoiding offense based on race, gender, religion, ideology or any other social grouping such as disability
[edit] Usage notesWhile "politically correct" frequently refers to a linguistic phenomenon, it is sometimes extended to cover political ideology and behavior, curriculum content, and many areas affected by law, regulation, and public pressure.
I've met few people who directly advocate "political correctness." It seems to me that the most "politically correct" position these days is attacks on political correctness.
Okay, let's take the Wiktionary def:
Based on that def, PC is pretty vague (ie many areas affected by law, regulation, and public pressure). It's a subject that is very open to interpretation, and cannot definitively be "good" or "bad". My own philosophy is to allow people to be who they are, pc or not, as long as they aren't causing demonstrable harm to another individual.
P.C Is a polite way to talk to someone and lie to their face, about the way you really feel,and make it acceptable to the main stream people.
If you have to lie to someone when you talk to them,why even bother talking to them in the first place?Maybe you're scared of a physical response to what you say to them.
No, it's not.
It's a way of putting the person first, and their race/ ethnicity/ disability/ sexual orientation/ gender second.
The hope has always been that if we as a society consciously changed our speech patterns to be more inclusive, our thinking would follow.
This hope has, to some extent, been realized.
No, it's not.
It's a way of putting the person first, and their race/ ethnicity/ disability/ sexual orientation/ gender second.
The hope has always been that if we as a society consciously changed our speech patterns to be more inclusive, our thinking would follow.
This hope has, to some extent, been realized.
What PC really is.
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought—that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc—should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.
No, it's not.
It's a way of putting the person first, and their race/ ethnicity/ disability/ sexual orientation/ gender second.
The hope has always been that if we as a society consciously changed our speech patterns to be more inclusive, our thinking would follow.
This hope has, to some extent, been realized.
Ironically, that which was intended to bring races together has probably played a role in keeping them apart.
Sometimes the next logical step is required in order for a mentality to be sufficiently evaluated.
That being said, most anti-political correct people are politically correct wimps, waiting for the moment to declare themselves anti-pc when very few stand to be offended at their coming statements.