Is society truly more tolerant or is it more politically correct?

Question

I'm just curious as to what others think on this matter. I see many people complaining about excessive political correctness. I also see people apparently embracing others who are different without question. For example, there are people in showbiz today who would had to hide their personal lives from the public 15 years ago. Today they are completely in the open and successful. Is society changing for real or is it changing superficially, or both?

I'm not taking a position either way. I just want to know what others think. No offense intended by those who may perceive some offensive intent in this question. Thank you.

Answer 1

I will stake a claim that the tolerance you see today is inspite of political correctness.  PC is divisive, tyranny with a smile that has an agenda that excludes large parts of the community: non-feminist, Christian, white, male  for the most part.

EDIT

Where I live, there have been cases of Christian pastors who know the Koran, and who have preached against it, yet their comments are taken as vilification of Islam, even though their comments amounted to no more that telling a group of people what the Koran says about certain things, yet Muslim clerics in Melbourne, Australia can preach hate and dissent and claim persecution if they are reported for their comments.

PC is divisive: it mangles the language in order not to offend, it leads to countries like Britain eschewing their heritage and changing laws to that immigrants don't feel offended.

It affects education with terms such as 'mother' and 'father' being lobbied against by homosexuals because it supposedly assumes parent couples are always male and female.

PC is tyrrany: it has no agenda of equality or harmony, rather it seeks to socially engineer communities into superficial harmony by ignoring truths.

A local example where i am is placing  blame on police for being racist (despite records that prove them being even handed) rather than the Sudanese gangs who are causing trouble near where I live.  The local Sudanese community leaders complained to the state police commissioner about harrassment by the police.  The Commissioner responded by telling police to back off.  Thus fewer crimes are reported, thus the crime statistics have gone down.  Yet the crimes are still happening.  I work in that community.

Answer 2

It is both, when the children grow up in integrated schools, they learn to love each other in many cases, not always, but more so as time goes by.  To many who are still harboring racial feelings, they usually become less of a problem as time passes.  One of the best things to happen is the exposing of sexual deviates that have been hiding in there religions, so in this case less tolerance is best.

Answer 3

As a psycho-sociologist, I believe society has simply become more politically correct.  As a person, I'd pray we've become more tollerant... but I know it isn't true.