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Political Correctness Is Numbing
Political Correctness has, in the last few years, mutated from a useful instrument for enlightenment and change into a symbol of public and private views gone awry. This controversial philosophy is used by some special interests as a platform to force radical and often illogical teachings into the classrooms of colleges and universities across the U.S.. Unlike the abortion issue or the federal deficit which are very present forces guiding our national thought, political correctness (abbreviated as P.C.) is a subliminal back-burner that is only brought to bear when an ethnically non-specific, gender neutral, ageless, nameless, colorless, secular being or group takes issue with a verbal or written statement. Unfortunately, its usefulness as an instrument to correct grievous wrongs such as rightfully offensive racial and ethnic slurs, hate speech, prejudice, or inferior references has been diluted to the point of being absurd and ridiculous. Many of the critics of traditio! nal education have so abused the term that the cliquish trend to become politically correct is turning our culture into a vanilla flavored, middle of the road, unopinionated society. If the P.C. movement continues it’s literary censorship campaign through our college libraries and classrooms, we will be left without anything thought provoking or mentally stimulating to debate as every verbal statement or written word with this attribute will be deemed politically incorrect and offensive. College campuses across the U.S. have been fertile ground for debate over PC issues since the late 1960’s. Early actions of this ideology, referred to as liberal humanism, ultra-radicalism, or “‘68 Philosophy” by Paul Berman in his book Debating P.C., centered on “identity politics” like woman’s rights, gay and lesbian liberation, or ethnic revivals such as black nationalism. The phrase “politically correct”, originally coined by Mar... Please login to view comments from other users.
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