Why is it important to be politically correct?

Question

I really don't care if I offend anyone. I get offended on a daily basis by others. who cares? I long for the day when a man pinched a woman on the behind that she turned around and slapped him verses picking up a phone to call her lawyer. Not that I care to say n**ger, but why do we need the PC police to send us to re-education camps if we offend someone. Can't the person just smack us and be done with it. Or does that take the lawyers and Jesse Jackson out of the picture?

Answer 1

"Political Correctness" - is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t**d by the clean end.

Answer 2

   It's all the "pendulum effect". Public opinion swings from one way to the other continually, in various issues.

   A few decades ago and prior, the status was what we would now call very politically incorrect. Many people had prejudices against minorities like blacks and immigrants. Of course, these prejudices were wrong (and still are, where they still exist), but we, as a culture, have swung too far in the other direction.

   Groups are stigmatized if they are labeled as "not diverse", no matter why they are "not diverse". It could be that they just couldn't find any people from minorities with the skills needed. (After all, they are from *minorities*, meaning that there are *fewer* of them.) But no one cares why, they just yell how they're prejudiced and not diverse.

   Similarly, there have been longstanding prejudices against women, who aren't really a minority but have been treated like one for centuries. (This problem may be a bit less of an issue at the moment, because women have had more rights for longer.)

   Many people think they are being fair, when they are not. They are ultra-quick to destroy anyone who utters anything that could possibly be a slight against an ethnic minority or against women, but a joke that would be tarred and feathered, drawn and quartered, and burned at the stake if directed at these groups is dismissed as, at worst, a bit tasteless if directed at men or even at whites.

   Don't get me wrong, anyone, I would never condone a return to prejudices against women and minorities (or use of words like the one you mentioned), and if there had to be a prejudice, then it's probably better that it's against men and the majority. I just think that we should have a truly equal society (not meaning something like the one in Harrison Bergeron, understand, but a real meritocracy). I understand that it won't happen soon, but let's try to make it sooner.

Answer 3

Because not everyone prefers to be slapped!  

Why not just be nice?

And political correctness, while occasionally over the top, and often worthy of the ribbing that it gets for itself, is a set of guidelines for how NOT to offend.  (and lord knows, most of the offendables think it's just as ridiculous as those who would rather not be so careful do!)

Answer 4

i agree with you.

Political correctness is a joke and people are taking it way too far.

Answer 5

because if everyone walked around smaking each other

the world wouldnt be a pretty face

and besides

lawyers and the po po want their monayyyyyy

duhh<3.

Answer 6

So, you propose a more 'smack-based' society?