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Is it normal to believe that political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end?
I often find that many people who bitch about so called political correctness just enjoy being obnoxious bullies. But the minute they perceive their rights being overlooked in the slightest, well they usually whine the most.
Sort of like saying "It's okay if other people's rights are trampled on but don't you dare step on mine."
While I understood your message I believe this in the way it was written might possibly confuse some. While I believe we should all respect each other to a point I think some people are getting out of hand with it. People are using this as means to harass and attack other people and this creates more prejudice.
OK, so what you are saying is that since Hispanics are now the majority in California, white folks (what exactly should we call then now, that is politically correct, since they are now a minority?) should get the favors of affirmative action? I guess it doesn't matter to anyone that a huge number of this majority are not citizens, pay no taxes or contribute to the social welfare system that they deplete.
By the way, why are white men not people to you? Isn't THAT a pretty damn racist?
You can't have it both ways. Damn I hate hypocrites. I guess that's MY failing, huh?
People who complain about political correctness tend to be those our culture favours, ie: white people and men.
Isn't it such a shame that we can't all be racist, sexist, homophobes like in he good old days? It's political correctness gone mad!
I think it's great when it comes to making statements neutral in terms of ethnicity, gender and so on. I think it's entirely possible to have an intellectual discussion regarding hot subjects without using language that could harm groups of people who are still attempting to gain acceptance and normalcy within our society.
However, when applied to individuals' statements such as pressuring individuals to feel guilt over saying things such as "Happy Holidays" over "Merry Christmas", or the casual use of terms such a "man, woman, male, female" etc. In an attempt to identify people by their obvious biological sex rather than their often obscure gender, yes, I think it's a step too far.
Political correctness is an attempt at neutrality in language, although, sometimes it is a poor attempt and distracts from the actual subject. If a person is being polite and respectful, it shouldn't matter that they use the term "Hispanic" instead of "Latin American". That's just silly.
I think being politally correct is a little silly but that does not mean that I go around and call black people niggers or Jewish people bankers or white people honkys.
Too much political correctness leads to the wussification of a nation and rabid douchbaggery.
Political correctness can't hurt anyone.
Saying that the people you don't like are turds which have no "clean ends" isn't very politically correct of you :P
Please read it again. It doesn't mean, "the people you don't like are turds which have no "clean ends", it means the powers that be, in this case, "a delusional, illogical minority, and unscrupulous mainstream media" insist on trying to convince everyone that a turd has a clean end; no more, no less.
It has nothing to do with me, or you, unless you are "a delusional, illogical minority, and unscrupulous mainstream media", which I doubt.
Unless I'm attaching more to your metaphor than is really there, it seemed to me that turds = groups of people, and picking up by the clean end = handling them in a politically correct ("clean") way. If you're saying that it's a bad thing to be told that you can pick up a turd by it's clean end, it stands to Reason you think there are turds who can't be picked up by their clean end :P
Or maybe... I am attaching more to your metaphor than is there: you were just trying to say that political correctness is as ridiculous as imagining a clean turd, and the metaphor aligned a little too conveniently in my mind with the subject matter of being PC for me to keep it cognitively separate :P It was probably the word "clean" that made the alarm bell go off erroneously, and the slight moral ambiguity that made me imagine the same tone as a closet bigot would use to seem unprejudiced. In which case I apologise for jumping on your back!
Anyway, back on topic. I do think it's good to be politically correct if you know how to be. No-one should get on your back about it if you have good intentions. At the same time I think it's wrong to ignore the fact that using certain language can be damaging to people, and also wrong to deflect the responsibility that falls on everyone's shoulders of avoiding that damage. I don't think it's the job of people who have drawn the short end of the social stick to deal with indirectly derogatory language which was created as a result of their position in society. Even if it's used without there being any conscious knowledge on the part of the speaker that the term is offensive.
So I think it's good to be PC if you know how, and it is important to realise that language does have power. On the flip side I don't think anyone should verbally assault people who don't have bad intentions, although it's not always easy to tell intentions when you have to rely on language alone.