What Is Political Correctness?

Political Correctness should always be the main consideration in the mainstream media (msm) reports, as well as the academic world. In the book Bias, A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, the author, Bernard Goldberg, expressed his view on how did the liberal bias and political correctness work in the CBS and other msm. In “I Thought Our Job Was to Telling the Truth,” Goldberg was telling us how the political correctness effect on reporting racial issues. In 1995, Larry Doyle, a reporter, and his team were sent to Alabama to report the chain gang prisoners by the Evening News of the CBS. According to the interview with the chain gang, Doyle finished his report factually and honestly, and sent them back. However, Doyle was asked

I recently read Edward Schlosser's "I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students scare me" from vox.com. The article addressed, and even peaked my interest on the controversy surrounding the concept of political-correctness. I can say that I have never more agreed with and understood and thought about how politically correct language affects instructors of education. I admire the tone of the blog post because of the fact that Schlosser broadens his audience as a writer by noting from the very beginning that he is a normal human being - just like us! In the first paragraph, Schlosser states that while he has won teaching awards, he points out that these are minor. He speaks to multiple unknown audiences, but I would give the opinion that

Political correctness has become increasingly obvious in our daily lives. For example, the other day I attended the first meeting of the Frisbee Club here on the State University campus. During the meeting, we were discussing the fact we wanted shirts for this year, but we did not know what slogan to use.

Jenkins, M. (2007, July). How Political Correctness Protects the Bad Guys. Retrieved September 12, 2017, from https://www.thetrumpet.com/3808-how-political-correctness-protects-the-bad-guys

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.

Fear is driving America. Fear of saying the wrong thing, fear of thinking the wrong thing, even fear of dressing the wrong way. While this fear is prevalent, each of us respond to if differently. Some of us fear so much about offending others that we seek out others to tell them what to do, what to think, and how to act. While some of feel as if political correctness is being forced upon us and we take every means to that we deem necessary to protect their right to say and believe what they want.

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

As the world around us has become increasingly politicized, between the rise, and election of Donald Trump and the shock of Brexit and many other events, it has become increasingly obvious that politics have become a much larger part of not only our daily lives, but the minds of the public. These various political issues have become extremely divisive, leading to separate echo-chambers existing and stifling debate and partisan politics. In the New York Magazine article by Andrew Sullivan entitled Is Intersectionality a Religion? he argues that one of these specific ideologies, Intersectionality, better known as Political Correctness, serves as almost a religion based on how they reacted to the controversy surrounding Dr. Charles Murray at Middlebury

In his 2012 book The Next Nightmare, Peter Feaman discerningly defines political correctness as a conformity to the belief that anything which could offend someone’s political sensibilities should be eliminated. This definition reveals the inherent attack on freedom of expression, because in today’s overly sensitive society, there is no telling what could offend someone’s political sensibilities.

“When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom.” These wise words are said to be quoted from Confucius, a great philosopher and teacher from thousands of years ago. It seems that this man had predicted the future of our society. Our society has become a place where words lose their meaning due to sensitivity that a word may cause. We try so hard to ensure that someone isn't offended, and by doing so we lose the meaning of words. While I agree that there is some need for political correctness in our society, I believe that efforts have been taken to the extreme, causing many words to lose their meaning, and people to lose their freedom of expression.

Other major figures are sick and tired of being expected to hold their tongues for fear of offending others. (MORE MAJOR FIGURES WHO HAVE SPOKEN OUT ABOUT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS). The country as a whole strongly agrees with this sentiment. In a recent study by the Pew Research Center, it was found that 59% of Americans felt that “Too many people are easily offended these days over language.” compared to only 39% of Americans who felt that “People need to be more careful with language to avoid offending people.” At the most recent Republican National Convention, former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination Ben Carson began his speech by proudly proclaiming, “I’m not politically correct. I hate political correctness because it’s antithetical to the founding principles of this country and the secular progressives use it to make people sit down and shut up while they change the

The idea that political correctness protects marginalized individuals is fallacious. The political left’s sharp focus on being politically correct has inhibited the potential for real conversations on race, gender, and other similar issues to take place. For fear of being labeled as racists or bigots, many are forced to tiptoe around certain subjects. Direct examples of this are the fear of using the word “black” to describe black people and the fear of discussing the complicated history of slavery in their presence. Another issue that is given the blanket term of “politically incorrect” is any discussion regarding the habits of obese people, whose critics are immediately labeled as bullies. In addition to prioritizing equality over hard work

When confronted with viewpoints opposing their own, humans tend to seek refuge. They find it, relaxing with like-minded friends, free from discourse. Some advance as far as to suggest conflicting ideas be eradicated. One side must argue against an imaginary foe, simply to pacify the public, with any other ideas exiled. Should identity politics rule? Should trigger warnings conquer facts and humanity bow down to political correctness? Is ANTIFA peaceful, or hypocritical? At the heart of the debate, censorship and political correctness.

Lisa Ancona-Roach article Won't vs Can't – How Political Correctness Can Shut Down Our Growth "What could foster real healing—conversations where we can learn about different realities and grow to understand them (and one another) and work toward change—well: if we don’t talk...we don’t talk. Political correctness can actually stunt our growth toward a healthier society by squelching these kinds of critical dialogues." As Roach stated rather than fathom the concept of other realities that can potentially evolve the world we live in but instead choose to ignore it fearing the thought of second guessing what you knew for most of your life. What is considered the right term when certain words have different meanings all around the world like the term colored in South Africa is a common term, instead we should educate ourselves by looking at the bigger

“Terms such as politically correct thus have a hidden history, uncovering which is dependent both on the accurate recollection of those who were there,” (Cameron, 1995,78).