You can’t fix a problem by dancing around it:
The Problem With Political Correctness
4 thoughts on “The Problem With Political Correctness”
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I saw through this PC BS a long, long, time ago. Political Correctness silences necessary public discussions due to fear of social or professional retaliation. Strict adherence to PC can cause people to hide their true thoughts behind careful language. Finally it it acts as a tool to police thought and enforce a specific political worldview. All bad.
You were right, Fred, when you saw through it. It has now been decades since this affliction came upon us. Pretty tiresome…
Amen. And so important. Fred goes to the core: “…it acts as a tool to police thought…” To control thought, since language is primarily how we think.
A bum may have problems that elicit sympathy, but the problem isn’t a lack of homes. It is the behavior that has rendered him a bum. Calling him “homeless” obscures the truth, as if it were an accident of nature. These PC words are no accident; they are purposeful linguistic programming.
Blurry words carry deplorable thinking the way mosquitoes carry malaria.
Your use of the word “bum”, J. Sobran, reminds me that is what they were called when I was a child. They were usually “wino’s”– another term that was used– or more accurately alcoholics.
It can often be an expression of kindness to refrain from using harsh– although accurate– words in certain situations. But in the course of what should be robust debate and discussion, PC is poison.
I used the subtitle “speech codes”, because that is precisely what we are discussing. An imposition of speech codes for political purposes.