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Zonie63 -> RE: Why I don't take political correctness seriously these days (12/7/2012 4:35:44 AM)
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ORIGINAL: naughtynick81
It's a one way street so to speak. Such like it's so easy to accuse a male of misogyny, on the other hand, it's hardly taken seriously to accuse a woman of misandry. It's so easy to accuse a white person of racism, on the other hand, it's hardly taken seriously when accusing a person of any other race in the western world of racism. It's so easy to accuse chistianity of being bad, on the other hand, how dare anyone accuse islam of being bad.
People have these ultra sensitive lenses towards sexism, racism, being anti islam, when its going in one direction while being totally blithe when its going in the other. This is one of the main problems I have with political correctness these days.
This new world order of political correctness is doing more harm than good to humanity.
The first time I ever heard the term "political correctness" was at some point in the mid 1980s (although I understand the term originates much sooner than that). One way of looking at the way society has changed is in looking at TV shows and movies from the 1960s, 70s and early 80s. I find it interesting that when younger people look at movies from that era, they look at it from a completely different perspective than we did when we actually saw those movies back then. I think of this whenever I read the IMDb message boards for older movies, a couple of examples might be Sixteen Candles or Revenge of the Nerds. Or even shows like All in the Family have to come with warning messages now, because the younger people of today would look at it completely differently than we did when the show first came out.
Sometimes, political correctness might go a bit too far, no matter if it's right-wing pc or left-wing pc. I often read "political correctness" as "a lack of a sense of humor." Some people take themselves far too seriously, and these are the ones who tend to fall into the politically correct bent. Others might find political correctness to be a bit stifling, since we have to find "diplomatic" ways of saying things when we could just blurt it out and let the shit fly. But on the other hand, there's something to be said for simple politeness and not contributing to toxic rhetoric. But political correctness doesn't even deal with that, so perhaps just general civility might be the better way to go than pc.
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