Political Correctness In Social Media

Politically correct language has become huge movement in modern society. There are words that have gone through numerous changes such as “shellshock” going through many changes finally being to what it is known as today as “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” as best described the late George Carlin. Today there are large groups that urge political correctness to the masses in an attempt to end discrimination against gender, race, and sexuality. In “The Word Police” by Michiko Kakutani, the author writes about how political correct language is more focused on the words itself rather than the content behind. As progressive as it may seem, political correctness threatens a free society.

The internet and the people on it can be very crucial. Social media allows people to express themselves in ways they feel can’t in the actual world. They express their feelings, their open to their own opinions, and so forth. However, the internet also consists of people who give unnecessary, mean, and hateful opinions to other people for reasons that no one truly understands. The podcast “Act One. Ask Not For Whom The Bell Trolls; It Trolls for Thee” by Lindsey West, is about a female who was constantly getting backlashed over the internet by whom she referred to as “trolls.” The internet is usually where people go to voice their opinions over what they feel is right or wrong; with Lindsey West, she had voiced her opinion and what she felt was wrong about male comedians using the rape term too often and using carelessly. A result of West voicing her opinion

Social Media is a form of communication in which a person shares information, personal ideas, and thoughts online. The foundation of social media began in 1997 when the first social media site Six Degrees was developed. Since 1997, social media has become an iconic name and has become part of this generation's conversation. There are over 100 million people using social media to gain access to the digital world, with over 20 social media sites including Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram (Milanovic 1). Roughly 80 percent of teens and 20 percent of adults use social media daily and almost half of the users were bullied or criticized for a single comment. Comments that include discrimination, sexism, or political beliefs can be retweeted to thousands in a matter of hours. “Accusations go viral, globally, within hours, and instead of having dozens of angry voices baying for your blood, you have tens of thousands” (Haley 1). Although social media has made it easier to communicate these sites, make it easier to be critical or prejudiced to others online instead of face-to-face.

In an article from The Washington Post, Cathy Cuthbertson, a Trump supporter, said, ““You know, I couldn’t say ‘Merry Christmas.’ And when we wrote things, we couldn’t even say ‘he’ or ‘she,’ because we had transgender. People of color. I mean, we had to watch every word that came out of our mouth, because we were afraid of offending someone,”(Tumulty and Johnson). Cuthbertson’s feelings embody much of those who oppose political correctness. Most of the oppositions to political corrections stem from the argument

everybody believes political correctness is a good thing.One standpoints that can defend this. Equally the other side, has some advantages.  Not everybody believes political correctness is in the nest interest of everyone. We all have our

Not only does political correctness limit language, it limits competition between groups. For example the competition between the upper and lower class for power would cease if we were made to be politically correct. We need the upper and lower class for our society to function correctly. Without competition society can not thrive, and the philosophy of political correctness attempts to make people equals which effectively blocks individual success thus eliminating any motive to take the risks necessary to succeed. How can a person move up in this world with out stepping on others, and every time someone steps on someone else they will use methods or words that could be taken as politically incorrect. It is the nature of capitalism and democracy to have competing groups which ultimately leads to a separation of the bourgeoisie and proletariat or the upper and lower class. This is the greatest good a capitalistic democratic society can reach because the factions are not permanent; the members of each group are free to move

Political correctness is a concept encouraged in the simplicity of technology. And perhaps, it is political correctness which tears apart and inhibits the expression of the self, leading to suppression and depression. Technology is the vector by which expression can be allowed or burned into ashes.

Social media has become one of the main methods for public shaming. Many activists have used it as a way of getting attention with the media, but others have used it as a form of entertainment to watch people’s lives get burned to the ground. Though public shaming can be very entertaining it can also be hurtful and can even cause people to lose their jobs along with their self respect. The article How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life, written by Jon Ronson, describes how the punishment for using social media inappropriately can be detrimental to your future

Trigger warnings, safe spaces, and microaggressions; call it by any name you want, but political correctness has entered our life in academic, work, and personal environments. This fear has created a widespread impact in our scholastic exchanges, our Universities and schools now police the exchange of ideas, the conversation of the minds that they are chartered to encourage, they have suppressed. When it comes to talking about political correctness you have to “watch what you say” you don't want to “offend anybody” but that shouldn`t be the case. We should recognize what you are discussing when you need to discuss political rightness and research a little before you embarrass yourself, then reassess where you stand, lastly go out and get it going. Despite the fact that nothing will change in the event that we don't do anything on a national, worldwide, or neighborhood level, individuals are excessively outrage since we have to teach ourselves, and go and do something and as opposed to getting angry, we can go out and accomplish something.

Imagine living in a country that does not allow us to have the right to think or voice our own options. Living under someone else words and orders is brutal. In this article, “Political correctness? No, politeness” by Neil Joseph, he expresses his thoughts about political correctness. Joseph talks about how the term political correctness has been thrown around quite loosely by candidates. Political correctness is defined as “agreeing with the idea that people should be careful to not use language or behave in a way that could offend a particular group of people” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. People should have the freedom to say what they want to say because no one owns them.

In my opinion, political correctness could be seen as the antithesis of the concepts of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. It allows people to simply label anything that offends them or any subject they disagree upon as being politically incorrect. The beginning of this essay, Merry Christmas, is still a controversial subject

There are too many tangled webs attached to it as a theoretical construct, as a category for discerning personal feelings about someone. When Political Correctness comes into the mix, there are even worse negative effects, take away the idea that it stops “unnecessary offence,” and what is left? Political correctness creates a disruption in debate and blocks the first amendment right of freedom of speech. It inhibits personal feelings, accentuating unnecessary feelings of guilt, that force the speaker into believing that they are guilty of some high treason speaking about a subject as if it were a leper. Political Correctness’ negative consequences far outweigh the good, and lead it to have negative impacts on society, through over compensation in things like racial quotas, and reverse racism. As long as people feel the need to put others into categories, fat, skinny, white, black, etc., there will be a racial discussion, and it is furthered by Political correctness pointing out that people need to sidestep certain topics, by sidestepping it, there is a spotlight on it, and it is brought into focus, and forces race to be a part of popular

The United States protects freedom of speech as long as it does not inflict physical damage to anyone. The first amendment states “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press”(Stone and Volokh, 2017). There are a few reasons why the government can restrict freedom of speech which are considered unconstitutional yet comments that are mean and distasteful are not restricted by the government. No individual should face retribution for sharing and expressing their perspectives. Social media comments have all sorts of outlook some are positive, and unfortunately others are negative. Not all comments on social media should align to a specific way of thinking. Censorship should not be an option for disliked comments or unarguable comments.

Political correctness is cultural Marxism. Marx, as cited in Introduction to Social Science course guide, believed that if people were left to work on their own they would be more efficient. He had an ideological belief that laborers could actually want

For the past decade or so there has been a considerable shift in the way we communicate with each other; instead of speaking face-to-face, we prefer to stay in touch by way of a Facebook post or Tweet. Social media dominates our life whether we’re using it, or not. However, not all online dissonance has been healthy and civil. The internet has seen a rise in the number of trolls and predators that lurk the dark corners of the Internet. Threats, and heinous insults flood media networks like Reddit and Snapchat. Online predators who fling insults are enamored by the internet’s alluring anonymity and can’t give it up. Like Christine Rosen says in her article called, “In the Beginning Was the Word,” “technology has introduced new words, changed the meaning of others, and has even introduced new forms of language and communication” (230). The evolutionary trend and prevalence of people intentionally offending others online has led to a