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  • Some people have no regard for the feelings of others. Some people are inconsiderate louts. Some people desperately hold on to the bigotry and hatreds they have learned, rather than embracing the truth and education. I have no time for such folks.
  • I do not consider it a bad thing, but I do consider it to be a waste of time quite often. It all depends on the context. For example, if I call a friend of mine black and someone says "Thats not very PC" then I think they are being silly.
  • Sometimes political correctness is overused. E.g. in situations where no offence would be taken anyway.
  • because sometimes it gets annoying.
  • Because some people find that it is better to be socially correct better then being politically correct, like myself. I just find that being politically correct has a tendency to reinforce the wrong that its is supposed to be correct about.
  • Obviously Silvio Berlusconi doesn't!
  • Because it can be very negative. Some people today seem to be 'professional offendees', and make a point of being offended by anything they might happen to disagree with. Also political correctness, as has been pointed out by another poster, can frequently reinforce the thing it is ostensibly against. For example, I have seen politically correct statements that have expressed inverted racism.
  • I always think honesty is the best policy, providing you can communicate with civility, respect and a polite means of exchanging ideas. Attacking someone or insulting someone with whom you disagree is always politically incorrect..telling a lie just to get along is also not good. Better to stay out of the discussion entirely than lie or insult others. Happy Saturday! :)
  • 2-3-2017 "Politically correct" is a euphemism for "pretty lie" in most cases. In politics, anything can be true if you keep saying it.
  • Hi...because you can't please everyone. People are offended now so easily and a lot of people are tired of having to walk on eggshells or turn away from traditional values. I don't want to openly offend anyone. I really don't. However, sometimes we get a very small group of people that get offended by something and we have to change a policy that millions of people are fine with. For example, the transgender issues that are wreaking havoc on society. When we start changing things that weren't intended to be changed, like gender, a whole host of problems arise. Restroom issues, pronoun changes, and now girls can join the boy scouts? Most Americans find these types of things silly.
  • Because it ends up causing division and hatred. If those are your ideals then live them, but when we seek to impose them on others or use them to point the finger at others then we become totalitarians.
  • It is a "phenomenon" of human nature, were free speech is being traded for political correctness.
  • Political Correctness is a tool used to command compliance. No longer can you be an independent thinker and have the freedom to speak your mind. PC requires you to accept the absurd no matter how wrong it is. "No Child Left Behind" produces intellectual idiots - who we must accept as equals. Gender benders are clearly out-of-touch with reality but PC evens the playing field no matter how offensive they may be to others.
  • Because it puts the wishes of one group ahead of what's best for the whole society. If you want to be seen as EQUALS you can't always be trying to stand out as being "special" in some way. People who think they deserve 'special consideration' need to get over themselves!
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      "If you hold a permanent view of yourself as a victim, you become your own oppressor." - Candace Owens
  • I think political correctness can go overboard. On the one hand political correctness tries to be considerate of other people's feelings. That is good. That is important. Conversely it can go to the extreme. Some, for me, reasonable examples are differently abled for someone disabled. Intellectual impaired vs retard or retarded. Little person or little person for dwarf. BTW midget is politically incorrect. One last thing short statured is a medical term for someone who is a dwarf.
  • Political correctness was fine, but political correctness at the sake of common sense, and resulting in lunacy is not, it becomes controlling and prevents one from exercising freedom of speech, and the ability to think for themselves. "If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behaviour." For example:- 1. The BBC has dropped the use of the terms Before Christ (BC) and Anno Domini (AD) on one of their programmes and decided that the terms ‘Before Common Era’ / ‘Common Era’ are more appropriate 2. The European Parliament introduced proposals to outlaw titles stating marital status such as ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’ so as not to cause offence. It also meant that ‘Madame’ and ‘Mademoiselle’, ‘Frau’ and ‘Fraulein’ and ‘Senora’ and ‘Senorita’ would be banned. 3. Throughout several US councils and organisations, any terms using the word ‘man’ as a prefix or suffix have been ruled as not being politically correct. ‘Manhole’ is now referred to as a ‘utility’ or ‘maintenance’ hole. 4. Loveable cartoon rogue Dennis the Menace has been given a politically correct make over. BBC chiefs decided to take away his edge in the remake. Gone are his bombs, catapult, water pistol and pea shooter – and in their place is a simple boyish grin. 5. Spotted Dick – a classic English dessert has been renamed to avoid embarrassment. The traditional pud Spotted Dick has been given the title Spotted Richard, after UK council bosses feared the original name might cause offence. 6. A school in Seattle renamed its Easter eggs ‘spring spheres’ to avoid causing offence to people who did not celebrate Easter. 7. A UK council has banned the term ‘brainstorming’ – and replaced it with ‘thought showers’, as local lawmakers thought the term may offend epileptics. 8. A UK recruiter was stunned when her job advert for ‘reliable’ and ‘hard-working’ applicants was rejected by the job centre as it could be offensive to unreliable and lazy people. 9. Gillingham fans had begun to fondly offer celery to their goalkeeper, ‘Big Fat’ Jim Stannard. The club, however, decided that celery could result in health and safety issues inside the ground. As a result, fans were subjected to celery searches with the ultimate sanction for possession of celery allegedly being a life ban.’ 10. In 2007, Santa Clauses in Sydney, Australia, were banned from saying ‘Ho Ho Ho’. Their employer, the recruitment firm Westaff (that supplies hundreds of Santas across Australia), allegedly told all trainees that ‘ho ho ho’ could frighten children, and be derogatory to women. Why ? Because ‘Ho Ho Ho’ is too close to the American (not Australian, mind you) slang for prostitute. 11. Some US schools now have a ‘holiday tree’ every year at Christmas, rather than a Christmas tree. 12) Punch & Judy shows have been a staple of the British seaside for centuries. In fact, its history stretches back to the diarist Samuel Pepys, who wrote about seeing a show in Covent Garden over 350 years ago. That hasn’t stopped Barry Town Council from banning the show from the festival because of its “inappropriate hitting” – and because it depicts an “abusive” relationship. 13) A huge Who fan who liked wearing a Pete Townshend-style Union Jack jacket was twice told to remove it – in case someone was offended. Jason Mawer, a publican, was told by an “official” his jacket could be deemed offensive. Of course, it’s not the first time the flag has been “banned”. Last year, police were told they were not allowed to wear a Union Jack patch in tribute to killed PC David Phillips. 14) Reliable’ and 'hard-working’ – surely the two keystone employers look for in an employee? Well, maybe not: a Hertfordshire recruitment agency boss was once told she could not request those qualities – Jobcentre Plus in Thetford, Norfolk, told her such an advert could be "offensive” to unreliable people. 15) Arthur Ransome’s novel Swallows and Amazons has been popular with children for generations – but, according to the BBC, one of its characters is too rude for today. The corporation decided that Titty was an unsuitable name and went for Tatty instead. Not for the first time, we add: it made a similar decision back in 1963, when it opted for Kitty. 16) Banning racist or inappropriate language, of course, makes perfect sense. And many works from generations gone contain language we wouldn’t think of using today – but doesn’t banning works literary genius seem an unwise step to take? One school in American decided to remove Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its curriculum because of the racial slurs author Mark Twain used. 17) We’ve seen the likes of cakes and tag banned in some schools in the name of health and safety, but this particular example of political correction is one of the weirdest you will see. An unknown school in England banned a Wonder Woman lunchbox for being “too violent”, according to a viral image posted online by a mum. “We have defined ‘violent characters’ as those who solve problems using violence. Super heroes certainly fall into that category,” read the letter from the school. 18) Railway stations in UK cannot use the words "Ladies and Gentleman," in case they offend non binary people, and this trend is pretty much breeding elsewhere. 19) The C of E church is blessing same sex marriages, even though the bible is against same sex relationships, and refers to it as sin 20) Further on from the above, they are now considering whether to use non binary language for God, substituted for parent, since male and female is offensive to non binary persons. "Our Parent, who art in heaven, non binary be thy name," (get the picture) which makes me wonder what they'll do with Jesus as a he, the holy spirit, and the virgin Mary. It just gets more bizarre. 21) Many police forces are being told that if they are looking for a black suspect, to also include white people in the questioning, so as not to appear racist. Yes they are having to question white people, when they know their suspect is black. And the madness reigns. This is thanks to wokeness, where everyone loses their grip on reality, in order to not tread on anyone's feelings. This is also in order to create chaos, because they want us hopping from one leg to another, this was all planned, banning words, including gender description, and racial description, is to keep you constantly worrying about what you are saying, instead of staying in touch with reality, it came about through processes such as the Frankfurt school, and the Tavistock institute. All this language is to bring in the aeon of Horus, the androgynous, look up Aliester crowley, and the lucis trust. Throughout history they noted a patriarchal a maternal, and then a childlike aeon, which was always a combination of the two, and so androgynous which is where hermaphrodite came from Hermes, and Aphrodite, so that's why we are being indoctrinated into all this weird malarkey now. Here's George Carlin, who aptly said that political correctness also sucks the life out of everything. And is there to confuse you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9n8Xp8DWf8 https://www.c-span.org/video/?c3535830/user-clip-george-carlin-political-language Who thought Monty Pythons sketch would actually become our reality? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp9MPLEAqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAK0KXEpF8U (well said John Cleese)
  • Thanks for giving the country away grandpa you sold out your children and grandchildren. Is what all of you politically correct people did. You gave the peoples wealth to corprate scum. Is what you did.

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