Political correctness

Political correctness is the avoidance, often considered as taken to extremes, of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against. After reading a few articles concerning such topic I have come to the conclusion that compliance with political correctness is a hard thing to accomplish. Furthermore, using of some of the inappropriate words or expressions may result in triggering warnings or emerging such kind of microaggressions from the side of audience, i.e. community that heard those words.

According to the George Carlin video, many words that had been used in English American language got old and were substituted by new and more tolerant words that do not cause any bewilderment and misunderstanding among different layers of population. The point that he, George Carlin, was trying to make an accent on is that people become accused even by words that were initially used to outline their actions or describe themselves.

I totally agree with the articles I have read about how people become more tolerable and thereby, get insane about things that somehow might have violated ther feelings. I would just call such process of getting more tolerant as getting out of the control or becoming douchebags. After watching two of the Bill Maher’s videos I have come to the point that different celebrities like apologize for the things that do not even seem offensive. Nonetheless, I cannot really understand the main principle why they apologize for such things. Do such individuals really feel the presence of guilt? I suppose that it’s nothing else but hypocrisy and conceit. After watching the second video I realized that people have started seeing things that were usual for the past from other perspective. Therefore, such things, notably in TV shows and films, as Bill Maher told, are not perceived as usual in the present by people. Nowadays, people think that there is no place in shows for women rights oppression, racial segregation, some ways people talk or act, etc. From one hand it is correct that people get more restrained and accurate in their statements, however, form other hand, people have the freedom of thinking anything they want and say what they want but with a certain caution. Sometime in the past the borders were blurred and people literally lost their freedom of speech. That’s why such political correctness has emerged. I would like to say that I absolutely agree with Bill Maher’s point of view and how he presents today’s situation concerning tolerance and changing people’s minds.

Now, what I think about college campus/safe places. I think that such places should not appear in schools and colleges. I think the only place where children can be protected from violating suggestions and words is their homes. No restrictions should be imposed on educational institutions and I believe that teachers and professors are free in their educational strategies and how they deal with students.

In the end, I want to give an example of the country whose citizens are mostly restricted in their expressions. This is North Korea that has nothing but dictatorship of their leader whose name is well-known. The same situation when people were forced to think twice before say something was in USSR during the term of Joseph Stalin’s leadership. People were threatened by the special agency that was watching over everyone who might have said something wrong about government or governors.

Finally, I would like to conclude that political correctness seems silly because this may result in incompetence and shift of people from thinking independently and based on their opinions to the certain system that would be ruled by government.