Why Political Correctness stinks

**bola** · 21st-May-2008

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Why Political Correctness stinks

Political Correctness (PC) purports to be about taking responsibility for the effects of your speech on others. At first sight, this seems a lofty goal.

What strikes me about proponents of PC though, is their lack of trust in their fellow man. They seem to see people as evil little critters whose speech must be constantly managed, lest it wreaks havoc on the Good.

Question is, who gets to define the Good, and who chooses the enforcers? What are the limits of this speech code enforcement? Guess what? It’s Good’s little helpers that get to define and defend Good. And since the Good is limitless, so are they.

For all their negativity towards the people, they themselves have grand plans for society. Very positive visions. Society and Man are perfectible.

I find this most puzzling. On the one hand humans cannot be trusted with something as simple as words, but at the same time they can be trusted to engineer the lives of others on an unprecedented scale. This does not compute.

A flash of insight! They’re not the same humans. Now I see. They are different. Now I understand.

This is proto-fascist, Hobbesian. The master that cannot do wrong.

Such deluded thinking. Regarding fundamentals, all are equal. All are sinful. To elevate oneself like this is the height of arrogance.

PC is just fundamentally undemocratic.

**Dr David Banner** · 21st-May-2008

We need to declare war on pc! SATIRE HUMOUR ....Any thoughts on funny cartoons,stories captions etc that could be put out there to have a go?

**Danarus** · 21st-May-2008

I'll refrain from doing anything funny for a while...

**byslexic_danana** · 21st-May-2008

The problem with political correctness, is that it is just sanctimonious a fashion statement. Amazing how supporters of it are against only SOME types of discrimination; namely that against non-whites and women. Of course, you can make jokes about gingers, fat people, short people, skinny people, and, of course, white men. If these idiots TRULY spoke from a position of morality, they would be against ALL types of discrimination.

**Danarus** · 21st-May-2008

They're only for discrimination that suits them.

**byslexic_danana** · 21st-May-2008

Feminism has dictated that the masses are politically correct when it comes to women. Some sort of desire to be modern has dictated that the masses are politically correct when it comes to non-whites (i.e. so as not to be old-fashioned). It's all about what's fashionable. What's ironic is that these idiots would have been the sort who would have been racist, back in the day, when it was fashionable to be so.

**bachelor tom** · 21st-May-2008

Quote from Danarus

They're only for discrimination that suits them.

Yes, they're really no better than the old religious censors, they just call themselves progressive.

There's a paradox here: PCism is based on the idea that controlling language can control behaviour, which sounds like modern social science. But psychology tells us that repression is bad, and re-directs negative energy towards bad behaviour.

So those who can't speak out will act out

**shaazam** · 22nd-May-2008

"Political Correctness (PC) purports to be about taking responsibility for the effects of your speech on others.'

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

it is Cultural Marxism on the hoof

do not attribute any good to it at all !! It sets out to gag your free thinking and speech - a situation that the Bolsheviks maintained in the USSR for 4 generations through a system of state coercion and terror;

it is double talk and double think designed to confound clear thinking and drive you insane eventually

"Human Rights Commissions" are applying PC even in its title which is totally against rights more about coercion and gagging free speech

Cultural Marxists love high sounding names - like calling
a skunk a "fragment Persian pussy"