Politically Incorrect

others, however, when excessive it acts as censorship, negates history, and becomes ineffective by portraying the false image of a civil society. Political correctness when used appropriately, has the potential to make a society civil and inclusive. Politically correct language’s goal is to structure public discourse to shield marginalized or historically oppressed groups form offense or insult. Due recent events such as the 2016 Presidential Election, political correctness comes off as an encroachment

In fact, people today are still displaying a higher attitude towards people with ID when referred to with politically incorrect terms (Millington & Stephen). I have gathered various sources, arguments, and studies in order to show you that it is no longer acceptable. Just because they have ID does not mean they cannot perform a task just as efficiently as someone who

typically log onto the computer? Are they accessing social media from work? Are they sharing politically incorrect ideas with people, and how connected are they to radical groups? Unlike Facebook’s data mining into the lives and associations of its members, RIOT draws on every social media platform – Twitter,

that the people use is unreasonable because of understatement. Both articles illustrate language complexity. However, Naylor uses her personal examples to argue against a suppression of politically incorrect language in a calm and conversational tones while Kakutani uses reliable resources to criticize a politically correct movement in a sarcastic tone. Although both authors deal with the similar subject in their own unique way, Naylor’s essay is better than Kakutani’s because Naylor explains her views

Efforts to Make Language More Politically Correct The term ‘political correctness’ is used as an ideal for the type of words we use to describe groups of people; by definition, politically correct lexis does not have any negative connotations. Those who are in favour of political correctness are opposed to words that indicate prejudice when describing or voicing an opinion on grounds

I could say that people are too easily offended nowadays, and someone would get offended. This is politically correct culture. Politically correct means conforming to the belief that language that concerns political sensibilities such as race and gender should be eliminated. Political correctness hurts society because it promotes intolerance, creates a culture of oversensitivity, and discourages civilized discourse. I used to be one those raging liberals that would be offended by everything because

someone, it creates the need to cease the use of those words. A new need arises, the need to replace those words that have essentially gone bad, whose meanings have changed due to the context of their use. Politically correct terms are necessary in these situations. When does our society take politically correct too far? In many cases in our current society, people take offense to words that simply do not mean anything more than their definition. As Mike Bloomberg stated at the 363rd Harvard University

trait: Diversity." So, there are many reasons why Columbus Day it a important holiday that should be continued to be celebrated. Next, as most of us know, Columbus had lots of slaves and he captured people to become slaves. This does sound politically incorrect right now but, in the times of Columbus it was

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

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