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
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
Political Correctness Is Not Yet the Real Correctness Last weekend, at a local seafood restaurant, the following conversation ensued after the server handed me the menu. “So, where are you guys from?” “We are Chinese students, and we are about to enter college next year.” “Oh, what will you study? Wait, let me guess, engineering, right?” “Well, you came close. Statistics, actually.” Ever since I came to America, I have countless experiences just like the one I described above. In our daily life,
Politically Correct In recent decades there has been a push, at least in the Western world, toward political correctness. We may quibble over when to call a spade a spade or just how far this should go, but all in all, getting rid of racial slurs and other derogatory nonsense is a net benefit to society. However, the pendulum has swung too far. There is also a push to pass laws enforcing political correctness, mostly targeted at “hate speech” (anything which offends, insults, or outright threatens a
During the early 1990’s the term political correctness surged into our everyday vocabulary. A lot of generation X kids in the 1990’s were finishing up high school or entering their early adult years and starting families. The idea of not labeling people and being sensitive to people’s physical, cognitive, cultural difference became a common consciousness that formed among generation Xer’s. For much of our childhood it may have been common to hear our parents and grandparents refer to people by their
and asthma, many of the college students in today’s modern age of political
Political Correctness: The Need for a Balanced Approach Since the advent of language, individuals have regularly stood ready to label certain language as “impolite.” In response, society has generated a means of circumventing such “improper” language which has become known as political correctness today. The term political correctness has become widely used since the 1990s in the United States and suggests the evasion of language and actions that aim to ignore, sideline, or offend groups of people
we’ve all been hearing about this term called “political correctness”. We’ve been hearing it on the news, reading it on the internet, and experiencing it in person. This is all because of the recent 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, and the now-POTUS calling out politicians for using a “politician filter”, also known as political correctness. This issue will continue to become more important, even as attention towards it winds down. Political correctness is extremely detrimental to the health of the
idea of ‘political correctness’ without putting much thought into how these concepts will affect every citizen of the United States. While some people benefit from
problem called political correctness and its destroying our nation every single day. Political correctness is the avoidance, often considered as taken to extremes, of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude. Colleges shouldn’t strive to have political correctness around college campus. We don’t need political correctness cause it problems and lead student protesting on campus. We should be more informed and open minded about politics. We deal with the political correctness problem every