“Political Correctness is tyranny with manners.” - Charlton Heston. Being politically correct is not an extremely popular way of thinking these days. In fact‚ most people are not politically correct nor do they want to be. There are a few reasons that make sense as to why most choose not to join the politically correct or P.C. culture. Most disbelievers think that being P.C. is a violation of our first amendment right to freedom of speech. That it tells us what we can and cannot say. Some think that
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Political Correctness; Limiting our Freedom Hello‚ my name is Ellen and I am aesthetically challenged. The inquiry of political correctness has been an extremely controversial topic in cultural circles for approximately 2 decades. Political correctness is the averting of words‚ phrases‚ or actions that could be offensive to certain groups of people who are discriminated against. Many people find “PCE” to be beneficial‚ in that it prevents insults and hurt feelings‚ but some find PCE as “baby-ing”
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Political correctness Political correctness this idea concerns the "proper" names of races‚ genders‚ nationalities‚ and professions. That means that words which used to be common have been changed in an effort to please everyone and offend no one. For example‚ garbage men (excuse me‚ not "men‚" collectors) are sanitation engineers‚ and some women would prefer to spell the name of their gender as "womyn." I see this political correctness crusade as a power struggle between radicals who want to have
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Political Correctness In The Classroom Schools in Canada have recently become the battleground for the fight over how much political correctness should be allowed to infiltrate grade school classrooms. One can take two sides when dealing with such issues as violent toys‚ "good clean fun"‚ the benefits and disadvantages of political correctness. There is much controversy about violent toys which are far from being considered politically correct. The toys that enter many grade school classrooms
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Political Correctness is a term that is well-known in today’s society‚ especially concerning the recent 2016 presidential election‚ this past November. The new president elect‚ Donald Trump‚ is an example of what would be considered politically incorrect. During his campaign‚ he used various offensive words to certain groups of people‚ yet he has become the new president of the United States. So what does this signify for a nation that is always monitoring what they say? America is perhaps entering
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Political correctness is the avoidance of volatile topics or keywords for the sake of one’s image. Regardless of a speaker’s content everyone should have the right to speak their unfiltered mind. The opposition says that people use the term political correctness to weaken arguments as the term is viewed negatively. Allowing for the silencing of any minority for the sake of the majority will signal that Americans have failed to uphold their fellow American’s constitutional rights. Americans should
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would use newspeak. Today newspeak has been swapped for the term political correctness. "The notion of political correctness came into use among communists in the 1930s as a semi-humorous reminder that the party’s interest is to be treated as a reality that ranks above reality itself."(Codevilla) This quote is saying that whatever the leaders tell must be true and that their words out weigh history. Today this political correctness is used not as much by a party as it is used by the people that want
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Political correctness is running rampant‚ and it is absolutely destroying this nation. In his novel1984‚ George Orwell imagined a future world where speech was greatly restricted. He called that the language that the totalitarian state in his novel created “Newspeak”‚ and it bears a striking resemblance to the political correctness that we see in America right now. According to Wikipedia‚ Newspeak is “a reduced language created by the totalitarian state as a tool to limit free thought‚ and concepts
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Marx-Political Correctness-Zizek (Dialectic over a cup of coffee) Marx: I think our black friend was right‚ this coffee is in no way helping me stimulate my senses. Zizek: Yes‚ because its colour is lighter than him! Maybe you should try something else. Marx: That joke is still funny even though it’s racist‚ but I admire the fact about how you’re being “politically incorrect”. Zizek: I don’t like that phenomenon at all. Marx: I’ve been reading about it a lot a nowadays‚ it was recently in the news
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THE PROBLEM OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE In order to investigate the problem we made up a list of questions (see a questionnaire in Appendix) about using different vocabulary in sensitive topics.The results we got are as follows. 1. Nobody called physically disabled people ‘cripples’. A great number of adults (66%) call these people ‘invalids’ but the vast majority of schoolchildren (teenagers) chose the PC variant (physically disabled). 2. The vast majority of respondents
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