Sat, Aug 1st - 5:19PM

Political Correctness, A good intentioned idea gone horribly wrong.

     Would not it be wonderful to go through life and never be offended by anything that anyone ever says?  Political Correctness is based on something of this idea.  Watch what you say or do so as not to offend anyone and we will all get along wonderfully forever and ever.  Nice idea but it will never work.  Because we are human beings it is impossible to go through life with out ever saying anything that anyone is not going to find offense to.  Many conscientious people are trying to live by the political correctness doctrine, watching every word, having uncomfortable conversations as they try to choose words that will not offend.  These people in my opinion become very high strung in public and very bitter in private.

     Political correctness itself is nothing more than a philosophy that is designed to govern the way that people talk to each other, to defuse any situation before it even begins.  This “correctness” white washes all conversations and interactions among all people that are expected to follow this philosophy.  The reason that it has gone horribly wrong is that while a person strains to have conversations that do not offend anyone or struggle to sanitize their lives to the standard of political correctness there are many who just sit around and watch for offenses against this philosophy.  As soon as any perceived transgressions of political correctness occurs the world jumps on the offender with anger labeling that person as a racist, homophobe, sexist, or even intolerant to any other religion other than their beliefs.

     I have been in contact with many people so far in my life, in many parts of this county and others.  What has angered me is that there are always people who while not caring what they say to any one wait for others to commit an offense under the political correctness doctrine.  In America there are people that flaunt there actions, their lifestyles in front of the world for all to see.  They do this daring the world to say anything about it and as soon as anyone says anything it gets twisted into some comment against them and their lifestyle or skin color.  Here is an example; a nice family is out for a nice dinner at a restaurant giving mom a night off from cooking.  At the table near them a couple is engage in a open public display of sexual activity, not the full blown act of sex but just all over each other kissing, groping and other acts.  The family is upset over this activity especially in front of the young children.  The father complains and the restaurant management approaches the couple to ask them to stop or leave.  Now if that couple are a man and a woman, some words may be exchanged but the issue will get resolved and people will move on.  Now lets say that the couple is same sex.  An argument will usually erupt with the couple calling the family and the restaurant staff as homophobes and discriminating against them because of their sexual preference. If we say that the couple is of another race than the the complaining family you risk it becoming a confrontation with racism as its base.  While this situation originally only had to do with the actions of people in the restaurant and had nothing to do with race nor sexual preference.  However, under the doctrine of political correctness this family may never say anything for fear of the results that may happen, the restaurant management will not say anything for fear of discrimination charges and the couple gets away with unacceptable behavior. 

     Under political correctness minority groups now have the majority over a barrel.  Fading from view are the displays of faith, the holidays that people celebrate with their religion at its core.  What has taken its place are displays glorifying the life styles of homosexuals,  the plight of the minority races, displays of religions other than Christian or Jewish or even against religion.  If anyone in the majority says anything they are assaulted by the minority for whatever the perceived offense is. 

     I believe that ‘political correctness’ should be scraped and thrown away with all the garbage that it creates.  There is a standard of society that everyone must live by in order to maintain order within the society.  If you are different from your neighbor great, no one wants to be the same as everyone else.  It is not in our nature, we are each our own person.  I can guarantee that I agree with things that you do not and that is fine with me.  What I am suggesting is that the banner of political correctness is being used to disrupt the lives in America.  With all the fights in courts and in public view taking place under the banner of political correctness the very fabric of life in America is being ripped to shreds.  While life in America may have never been 100% perfect it was a lot better before the doctrine of political correctness.