BleepingComputer.com: Is Politically Correctness Politically Incorrect in itself?

@Animal,

I'm sorry but I really thought you knew exactly what I meant and wanted me to be specific so you could show how wrong I am, or something to that effect. I'm just not up for that. But I see now you were being up-front.

The situation that I feel our country is in is very disturbing and tragic to me and I just don't want to go into that much detail.

All I intended was to discuss the political-correctness movement and what it's doing and where it's going to take us if we don't get a grip.

I can see now that if I don't want to talk about why I believe what I do it's not possible to make a point.

TC

This post has been edited by lora777: 25 September 2011 - 09:19 PM

Ok, understood.

@ lora777,
I'll be the first one to admit that I don't get into political debates,most of the
time i can't make head ner tail outta them and they just give me a headache....
Simply to me it just all boils down to this and always has....
It's the boy's in the back with the burbon and branch and cigars, that have always
been runnin the show, whoever's gonna suit their political agenda at the time is who
they will support whole heartly, as soon as they ( whoever, be it president,congressman/woman
orginization ect...I personally think that Nancy Pelosi is their for comic relief
)no longer suit the "Boy's" purpose, they are so outta there!!
IMHO this is nothin new..a bit more brazen perhap's, but nothin new....you got enough
money and power, you can make some people think that a duck can actually sing yankee
doodle and they'll fall all over each other tryin to prove it
Is the current administration to blame for all of this, no it's been all of em...
quite frankly the last president that i had any respect for was President Ronald
Reagan..did he do it perfectly..no...but he was in there swingin in a way that I could respect.

RESPECTFULLY
MissPlaced

@MissPlaced.. I have to agree with everything you said. It's all true except for Reagan. Now I loved him.. I can remember sitting on my job as a young woman and listening to him on the radio and watching him on the news.. I had never followed politics and he was the first President I ever really noticed in a personal way..I remember how they made fun of him on television and how sad and confused this made me because people used to have respect and I think that was the beginning of the no-holds-barred,anything-goes. Politicians used to campaign on what they-themselves were about but it quickly became a bashing contest instead...The news became an institution to sway the public instead of reporting events. Instead they put their slant on everything. Subtle at first and over the years becoming blatant.

I know you won't believe me and I can understand why. If I had heard someone say this before two years ago, I would have felt they were "out-there-man".

But we have been duped for many decades, even before Reagan. He was just a puppet too. There were two things he did during his administration that I never could understand until I came to realize he was just there for the ride and looked and sounded like a man of honor all the while.

This post has been edited by lora777: 27 September 2011 - 02:57 PM

@ lora777,
Agreed! I've watched the "Flavor Of the week",Don't much matter what the subject is,
The news is geared towards their spin on it, so are movie's, sitcom's ect....
It's a good thing that I think for myself, I just don't think I could handel a duck
in my bathtube singin Yankee Doodle

I just wonder if this applies to Political Correctness World wide?

I think you've got individuals who are given high levels of responsibility who fear making the wrong decision so they try to enforce the policy they've been given. It's something that's starting to affect the whole of society..... Author unknown.


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Ray.

No Drover, I think that would be considered having no common sense what's so ever - or - abusing power (bullying) which by the way, the latter is a great problem in our society today.

But...I do believe, it's because of the inability to think critically by the masses these-days, that has given political correctness the ability and power to shout down those that can still think outside of the box and that try to sound-the-alarm.

People used to understand the the great importance of modesty, humility and treating the things of God with awe and respect.. But nowadays, most anything goes with the exception of being conservative.. and look where we are because of it...

What's so sad and scary about all of this is, that the very people who have supported and believe it's all-good now that God and his Commandments have been thrown out, will be the very one's who are shocked and horrified the most at what's soon to be coming down the pike because of it.

This post has been edited by lora777: 18 October 2011 - 05:13 PM

PC can, of course, be taken too far, to harmful or bizarre extremes such as chairman to chairperson to chair...and we all know what a chair is. as language shapes thought in so many ways, we do need a standard some where, some how to measure and define what society believes is acceptable in civil discourse and debate. i can only write about what i know which is the way of things in the USA since that is the only culture/society with which i have extensive experience. certainly in this country there appears to be a lack of civil debate, discourse and moderation.

perhaps more than PC, polarization and extremism have killed the opportunity to hold a civil discussion about events, facts or legislation. after all, when a person or group of people has invested so much in a given ideology, left or right, then any other point of view must be wrong. since the political left and right need each other to create the dynamic from which progress evolves, hating each other and immobilizing the government is destructive of the good of the nation. moderation is impossible if each side believes that the other is irretrievably, completely wrong. that loss of respect for a different opinion, the inability to entertain the thought that there may be valid concepts in a different point of view may well be a fatal fracturing point in american society.

since the political left and right need each other to create the dynamic from which progress evolves, hating each other and immobilizing the government is destructive of the good of the nation.

I couldn't agree more..We have been pitted against each other for just that very purpose.

As one side takes total power and their people root them on and shouts down the opposition believing them to be the bad guys that create all societal woes is sheer lunacy.

This post has been edited by lora777: 14 December 2011 - 12:34 PM

I didn't really understand much of this because my brain isn't working properly right now, but I can tell anyone one thing. Today's understanding of political correctness is warped and twisted.

The original definition was that to be politically correct, you just had to respect other people. Now, if you so much as look at a black person, or anyone else that has been mistreated in the past, (no offense to anyone) you get killed by so-called "PC experts". I think it's just people overreacting. For instance (this isn't "political correctness" but it's related), schools are taking playgrounds out because one person gets hurt.

It is also about wrighting wrongs. I believe in that, but they just take it waaaaaay to overboard.

Anyway, that's just my two cents.

This post has been edited by Mr.Ninja: 22 February 2012 - 03:05 PM