Originally Posted by Steve9930
PC and being courteous and respectful are not one in the same. The architects of PC would have you believe they are one and the same.
PC is suppression of speech. PC is about controlling your thoughts and ideas to make them conform to someone's standards who believe your ideas are incorrect and their ideas are far superior to yours. PC is the first step in the destruction of a free society. It's a tool used control the masses. So when you see people promote this it has nothing to do with common courtesy and being polite.
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Originally Posted by Sandtrap328
WRONG!
If, however, you believe what you said is correct, give some examples of political correctness speech is the first step in destroying a free society.
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I am surprised that this thread has gone this far without someone mentioning George Orwell's novel
1984.
More than simply a novel, this book, published in 1948, was predictive of a future that we are fast approaching, where both the thoughts and the behavior of citizens are controlled by the government.
Start with the employment of the principal character in the book, Winston Smith. He works for the Ministry of Truth in the History Section, where he is daily called upon to destroy historical documents and write a "new" history. There are echos of current claims of "False News" or "Alternative Facts" that we hear about daily.
In this fictional region called Oceania, there are four ministries. 1. The Ministry of Truth - Dedicated to propaganda and altering historical documents. 2. The Ministry of Love - Dedicated to Law and Order by use of brutal physical and psychological force. 3. The Ministry of Peace - Dedicated to war efforts. There is never a global war; just little regional wars that are always breaking out. People who were our friends are now our enemies, and vice-versa. 4. The Ministry of Plenty - Devoted to rationing because everything is in short supply.
The story line of the novel is not the main point of the book. Rather, the separate discussions of the functions of the Ministries are the real point, although many people fail to read this part.
The discussion of the activities of the Ministry of Truth is most directly related to this thread on TOTV. In this, Orwell discusses in great detail how
government control of the elements of discussion (Political Correctness) achieves control over the thinking of the citizens. He gives the example of how it becomes impossible for citizens to contemplate the overthrow of the government because they are not even able to think in those terms.
To the extent that free-thinking citizens submit to Politically Correct speech, they are surrendering their freedom, and are on the path to destruction of a free society.
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The Constitution of the United States does not protect its citizens from being offended, nor does it limit offensive speech.
I do not go out of my way to offend people, nor do I use derogatory terms for ethnic groups. But, among terms that I have no problem using are "Illegal Aliens" for foreigners who are in our country illegally, and "Indians" for the peoples who were in America when the first Europeans arrived. Columbus did not call the natives "Indians" as an insult, but rather because he thought he had reached India.
Do yourself a favor and read 1984.