What do you think of political correctness?

[Train]

What do you think of political correctness; good, bad, neither, and why?

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Fvck PC!


CkG

 

[conjur]

Bad....WAY bad.

 

[viivo]

Very, very bad.

To hell with the children. The church ladying of the US needs to stop.

 

[Todd33]

Sometimes bad.

You are not African American unless you are from Africa. As long as I'm white, you are black. This isn't racist, it's just consistant.

 

[onelove]

bad - no qualification. say what you mean & let the hearer judge.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: Train
What do you think of political correctness; good, bad, neither, and why?

Depends. We obvously don't want the proliferation of n1gger, sp1c, ch1nk, wet-b@ck, etc to be used in a public manner, as these words are typically meant to be derogatory and serve little purpose in a civilized society.

On the other hand, when a prominent speaker correctly uses the word "niggardly" in a speech and gets blasted by African American pundits who want his head on a platter, then it has obviously gone too far.

 

[Mockery]

Ahhhh.....

I despise political correctness. In no other agenda has less consistencies and more double standards been created.

Anyone interested in this topic should check out Diane Ravitch?s ?The Language Police?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0375414827/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-1002250-2110366#reader-page

What these censor Nazi?s are doing to our school system is deplorable.

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

I think that policy makers, more often than not, overstep their bounds in an effort to achieve political correctness. A great example that comes to mind is the case of Susuan Stickel, California?s Education Secretary, or at least was at the time I sent her and the Washington Post this letter. I am 0-12 for ?Letters to the Editor? in the Post?and have no idea why : )

She had educators going through text books and removing all forms of so-called ?sterotyping?.


"I think our textbooks should to our greatest capacity be free of any type of stereotyping."
-- Sue Stickel


Proponents of school choice, like myself, owe a great deal of gratitude to California?s Department of Education for haphazardly trying to rewrite history, all in an effort to achieve political correctness. Filtering ?Founding Fathers? for ?Framers? is farcical. Once you complete your censorship of history, once you finish replacing ?snowman? with ?snowperson,? I hope voters in California will come to realize that their government institutions of learning (more politically correct than public schools) are in serious need of reform. I would never force my children to sit in a classroom where the Pledge of Allegiance has been deemed unconstitutional, all the while you so-called public educators rewrite history. The "people who founded this country" must be rolling in their "place of burial, usually nine-feet under the surface."

 

[Kibbo]

I'm of two minds about it.

I think that it is good that history classes make mention of what happened with aboriginals, I think it's good that some of history class is devoted to talking about the daily lives of men and women. The dead white guy view was a little narrow. That said, you can't remove the war and politics aspect from historyy. To do so would be even more narrow than what we had before.

I also think that those in public or professional life have a responsability to act and talk in a manner that is respectful of all.

But Damn, it can get really annoying, bitchy and petty.