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
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solved rationally. Everything they say to each other just offends the other because they will not see the others point of view. This is the problem with being too politically correct because people who are not offended by anything tend to say things that just offend everybody else.
People can be ridiculous about being politically correct because they are incapable of separating their emotions from what being politically correct is actually causing(It’s Time to Get Real About). “What’s mad here is the willingness of people to spout such ideologically vacant and socially dangerous statements without pausing to consider a) the meaning, b) the rationale or c) the consequences of their words. In short, people are being idiots about political correctness(It’s Time to Get Real About).” There was a problem widely reported - at Harvard this last spring. A young woman put a Confederate flag out of her dormitory window to show her political views. She was then attacked as insensitive to the opinions and feelings of others, and but she was defended because it was deemed self expression. Harvard did nothing to prevent this young woman from hanging out her flag. The college chose to accept the reason why she hung the flag(Mansfield). This is very much an example of people not approving of somebody else’s actions and using political correctness as an excuse to attack somebody.
Now the question here is when does self-expression end and downright offensiveness end.
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
fact.
Homophobia, racism, and sexism are learned traits, not things people are born knowing. Political correctness is necessary to prevent those things(Bennet). Although, on the other hand if people are too politically correct then it hinders societies ability to solve the problems that need to be solved. Political correctness just ends up creating racism, homophobia and sexism itself when it is overdone.
solved rationally. Everything they say to each other just offends the other because they will not see the others point of view. This is the problem with being too politically correct because people who are not offended by anything tend to say things that just offend everybody else.
People can be ridiculous about being politically correct because they are incapable of separating their emotions from what being politically correct is actually causing(It’s Time to Get Real About). “What’s mad here is the willingness of people to spout such ideologically vacant and socially dangerous statements without pausing to consider a) the meaning, b) the rationale or c) the consequences of their words. In short, people are being idiots about political correctness(It’s Time to Get Real About).” There was a problem widely reported - at Harvard this last spring. A young woman put a Confederate flag out of her dormitory window to show her political views. She was then attacked as insensitive to the opinions and feelings of others, and but she was defended because it was deemed self expression. Harvard did nothing to prevent this young woman from hanging out her flag. The college chose to accept the reason why she hung the flag(Mansfield). This is very much an example of people not approving of somebody else’s actions and using political correctness as an excuse to attack somebody.
Now the question here is when does self-expression end and downright offensiveness end.
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
fact.
Homophobia, racism, and sexism are learned traits, not things people are born knowing. Political correctness is necessary to prevent those things(Bennet). Although, on the other hand if people are too politically correct then it hinders societies ability to solve the problems that need to be solved. Political correctness just ends up creating racism, homophobia and sexism itself when it is overdone.