Political correctness is the insane shackles that our society has agreed to endure in order to absolve us of our intransigence. It is the modern day version of the Emperors new clothes, and possibly the crux of the matter with the difficulties that the country has with directly dealing with the fact that we have a black president and he is taking the country outside the box most of the citizens are comfortable with.
We are so pleased to paint as plastic smile on our faces and cautiously tip toe around each other with our hidden knives at the ready while we fraudulently rub shoulders with people we realty want to beat the crap out of.
Can our society do anything more than continue on life support with the continued implementation of this fake world or will it explode as it did in the 60’s. Does society progress like a slowly flowing stream or does it correct itself like the violent shifting of the plates that create Earthquakes?
I was all ready to refute your arguments with the central position that “political correctness” is generally a pejorative term for “common human decency,” but you don’t even raise any arguments, but rather string together a list of barely-coherent metaphors. Wanna make a real argument so it can be rebutted?
Anyone else NOT guess the join date from the title alone?
Dude, the “problem” of political correctness is so far down on the list that it’s not even funny. Doomed by political correctness? Ha! Climate Chance is going to kill us all first!!
I think that the OP is trying to say that most Americans despise what President Obama has done in office but are afraid to denounce him because of the fact that he is black. Which is factually wrong to the point of being nuts. I can’t fathom how someone could pay any attention to what passes for political discourse in this country and conclude that we are being too polite or reticent about our displeasure or disagreements about anything.
Meanwhile, here’s basically the opposite position from yours. I think it’s worth noting that he makes a far better case than you do. You don’t define your terms, you don’t make it clear what you’re talking about, and you seem to be confusing “political correctness” with “society”.
As a political ideology Marxism is pretty much dead in the United States, and in the West. During the War in Vietnam Marxism was a minority persuasion in the anti war movement.
The American Communist Party consists of several thousand members nationwide. I doubt that the Progressive Labor Party consists of more than several hundred members. If there are any other Marxist organizations in the United States they are equally ineffectual.
I do not know of anyone who claims to be a cultural Marxist. It does not seem to be anything more than a derogatory term for social liberal.
Social liberalism is not a movement, but a set of values, and a way of behaving that have become the consensus in the United States. Those who dislike these changes like to pretend that they are the result of a conspiracy of a powerful but small elite. They like to pretend that if they could defeat the elite, the American People would revert to the ethos of the 1950’s.
I find that when people bash political correctness, they usually mean “people should just admit I’m right about everything.” It’s not much of an argument.