this political correctness exist i got an interesting email from paul saying
political gt correct this does not exist simply there are just two sides while
interacting with the many diverse cultures in our society you can choose
to be polite
compassionate an inclusive
or you can choose to be insensitivity garrett and bias the politically correct
do not
and have never existed there is only nice
and there is only me
i'm interested in this ok so examples of political installer for their definition
of political correctness which we have here
political correctness is a term which denotes the language ideas policies in
behavior
seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense
and occupational gender racial cultural sexual orientation
certain other religions beliefs are ideologies disability and age-related
contact as purported by the term
doing so too excessive
extent
okay so basically put political correctness is
uh... terms which seek to mir five minimize
people being offended right that's really what we're talking about here so
is political correctness a real thing or is it just you either being nice or mean
based on
the context what what's your initial reaction before we look at some examples
uh... i think it does exist because i think there are situations in which the
anomaly mean person
will be politically correct while being interviewed her and her uh...
under the lands if you will sir uh... just to appear not to be that the
shorter they may be in real life and i think the only turn your tree half that
that is
being politically correct
well here's an example of the b_b_c_ has dropped the terms
bc and aideed before christ and arnaud domini when they talk about years in one
of their programs
and they decided they're going to use before common era and common era as more
appropriate so as to not offend
non-christians
uh... i don't really see that as initial political correctness that went in the
strikes me as elicit it's it's still the number and it's based around the death
of christ so changing the name it strikes me as quote politically correct
but it doesn't strike me as genuine what you think the time
yet in the and the reason why it makes sense to do that isn't because it won't
offend people
but rather because it's correct because according to the facts
there's nothing to say that christ was born or or even existed in the way the
people say so why would you base uphold terminology on something that
you know it just is based on fact sure but we're still basing it made by
changing into before common area it's a semantic argument it's still too zero
is still the same one that has nothing to do with that that has to do with just
the ease with which we're accustomed to viewing year zero and everything after
and then talking about you know what happened in ancient greece as four
hundred b_c_ so is it about not being mean to non-christians or is it about
quo political correctness political correctness exist for that example
they ask me yet
i mean i think that it's not really the reason why i agree with it isn't because
it's politically correct even though it is it's because it's factually correct
obelisk good look at another one that
uh... there have been a number of city councils in organizations et cetera
which has said that the word
man as a prefix first affects are are politically incorrect so for example a
man hole cover
is now called a
utility whole cover for a maintenance whole cover
political correctness is it about does not being mean to women
what do you think
political correctness i mean i i think the only reason you would
cheju this is too
pander to people who think it's somehow insensitive or doesn't make sense
by you came recruiter
was told that the advertisement for a job
citing they wanted a candidate that was reliable and hardworking
was offensive to unreliable
and stereotypically lazy
politically correct
means a lazy people
overly sensitive what do you think
i think this is so ridiculous it has to be in a completely separate categories
no
last won the contest relating to disability
instead of blind and deaf
using visually impaired and hearing impaired
yeah that's ameen that's just
on overly sensitive adjustment i think man versus woman i can kinda see how you
could say that a patriarchal society maybe we should drop those words
but you know there's nothing inherently wrong with saying that someone is blind
you're not saying that you know insulting that it's not for georgia
exactly i mean that's i mean it your user doctors say or you're going blind
it's not like it insulting term it's just a uh... description julie impaired
is pretty bribing technically you are visually impaired
by any kind of want to break
okay one point about that idea
so i think that
what i disagree with in political correctness is one because of pop of an
intention to not offend
people actually do a disservice to the cause
working for for example if you're talking about of poor
earth minority population in inner city
and there are serious issues regarding parenting
sometimes people will totally not mention it
and only talk about other issues peripheral to it which are acceptable
but not actually accuse any individuals of anything
anniversary of the daily accused of being discriminatory exactly for fear of
being accused of being of you know offensive and politically incorrect
alright but tell me your thoughts
this political correctness exist or not