What Good Has Political Correctness Done Society?

It’s the same story round the globe my friend. If in your country, its blacks and white, here in India it’s the Muslims as minorities, who in the name of political correctness, get the better deal every time at the cost of others. My Indian Muslims friends pls don’t misunderstand me, but 60years of Indian secularism hasn’t done anything for the community except handing out politically correct sops aimed at the ballot. In the process, the community has missed the bus in most occasions and lag behind as one of the most backward one and this resentment boils over as atrocities against other communities. Then we have the politically correct social workers, the NGOs, most of whom meet over ladies’ lunch, get hefty donations through influential husbands, buy cheap handicrafts from villages and sell them at a premium in the city malls, claiming to promote Indian handicrafts and helping poor artisans. And then there are the communists…roaming around in air-conditioned comfort, sending their children to study in capital countries and mouthing empty rhetoric from Das Kapital. Then there are the Human Rights Group, champions of everyone starting from the thief who got a public thrashing to the rapist who is to be hanged. I too have no problems with minorities getting benefits, but for God’s sake this has got to stop somewhere but it seems we the ordinary citizens have no power to stop it.

Being of Indian origin I'm what you might refer to as an ethnic minority but I have never expected to get anything that I didn't work as hard for as anyone else. I do believe that political correctness has gone too far and become too stupid for words. You can walk into most local job centres around London and it's almost a case of "spot the white employee" - there are so many black and Asians working there. How ridiculous is it when people in some offices in the UK aren't allowed to send each other Christmas cards because it might offend others. My boss at my last company asked me why I gave him a Christmas card (he was Muslim) - I gave all of my colleagues in the office one, I wasn't going to single him out by not giving him one! I was very bemused when he said I shouldn't celebrate Christmas! Well why not? We have Christmas dinner as a family every year from when I was a kid. Why should we stop celebrating something because it's not "exactly" my religion? To me, it's a time for family and spending with your loved ones. My faith teaches me to respect others and live a peaceful life which I try to do. Going back to your discussion, it's 100% wrong that people get places on courses with lower marks because of their ethnic background or skin colour. Everyone should have to do the same study and work to get where they get in life.

When I look at the total panorama of society, I feel sure we are in the twilight zone, and society is quickly imploding.. Some things have improved, but what I'm most concerned about is the state of family and the safety of children. And they are very closely related, I don't care what anyone says. Crimes against children are barely punished. See? Twilight zone!

Political correctness can only go so far. People should be able to talk about things, and talk about their mistakes and ways of correcting those mistakes. We cannot deny our human nature. We have to accept what and who we are, flaws and all.

Well, we got gays what are trying to convince us they can't help the way they are...we got gays trying to indoctrinate kindergarten age children into believing that the gay lifestyle choice is normal and acceptable, this is so that they will be more readily accepted by the next generation as a result of this diabolic brainwashing of our children. We got us a major moral decline in our country due to the PC tolerance for the intolerable that is constantly preached by the liberal media and the democrats....this has been ongoing from the 1960's. People are screaming about second hand smoke, yet nothing is said concerning the very real possibility of second hand aids as a result of the widespread gay lifestyle choice being practiced these days. We got us a society that says to be tolerant and nonjudgmental of everyone except Christians and conservatives, and white folks. We got us a bunch of young people that don't know what a terrorist really is, and thinks that the founding fathers of America were just like the bunch that we are fighting in Iraq. We got us a society that thinks the Bible is a collection of myths and fairy tales, and that God is a product of man's imagination when in reality man is a product of God's imagination. Political Correctness has not helped this country at all, in fact it has contributed very heavily to moral morass that we now find ourselves in.

Interesting observations, but not what I think of when I hear the term "politically correct". What you're talking about for me would imply affirmative action & those sorts of policies. When I think of being PC, I think of things like what terms does a person use. I can remember as a kid it was perfectly acceptable to call a person in a wheelchair a "crippled", even if not said with malice I can see how the person in the wheelchair would find it insulting or hurtful. So by being aware, and I hope sensitive, if I use the word "handicapped" isn't that better and more accurate? There is a point though when one becomes too sensitive & it defeats the concept & spirit of being PC. To say someone who is short is "vertically challenged" is just goofy & serves no purpose. To say the person in the wheelchair is "handi-capable" or some other over the top, overly feel-good term is to water down & minimize that they do have different needs than those of us who can walk. I think being aware & trying to be PC in our terms & treatment of others is overall a good thing. Real PC terms should convey accurately what you are saying & be free from malice.