People Are Exceptionally Correct In Society

People sometimes tell others something that they say is not politically correct and it offends them, but then they refuse to explain what is so terrible and offensive about what the person just said. It is to a point where people seem to be offended by everything. Being too politically correct is hindering societies’ ability to rationally solve problems. Being politically correct is incredibly important to society, because a lot of it is just not being offensive towards other people. The term politically correct originated from Communists and Socialist in the mid 20th century to insultingly to language that was in the party line. At the start of the 1990’s being politically correct became a huge deal to people in America and the UK , it sort of showed the rejection of racism, homophobia and everything else offensive(It’s Time to Get Real About). Although there seems to be quite an unclear line between stating an opinion and being downright offensive. Take religion, for example, Christians do not like Atheists because they are “too far” from God and just insult them refusing to see their beliefs, and vice versa, due to this, problems between them are not being
The young lady at Harvard had hung up the the flag to celebrate George Washington’s birthday and understandably enough the colored students at Harvard were offended. So as a retort directed towards the young lady another student put out a Nazi flag(Mansfield). Mansfield said that “You take offense by giving offense.” This is an example of how freedom of expression may just be racism and why politically correctness matters to an extent. Free speech is important in order to solve any problems at all but because people are taking politically correctness to such an extreme it is as if somebody were “there’s a black man standing.” They would be deemed as a racist when in all reality all they did was state a