What does Politically Correct Mean to you?

Politically correct to me means censoring anything that would only be offensive to someone so overly sensitive to issues and with little real grasp of history, art, literature, theatre, or reality.

It's basically censorship that ends up hurting everyone.

 

It means never talk back to feminists, and calling garbage men as "environmental engineers" while disabled people as "physically challenged." etc...

 

It means to leave the seat down next time.

 

How about "Don't be a dumb ass"

 

Being overly concerned with others feelings.

Oversensitive.

DD

 

Being sensitive to the things that make us different.

 

Throwing common sense out the window and saying ridiculous things so that insecure people's feeling aren't hurt.

 

AB, can I ask a question?.... (no malcontent in this question, really just curious)

When you are called black, does it upset you? I'm just wondering because when I'm called white, gringo, or whatever I get called, it doesn't really annoy me. Maybe just because I'm in the majority, but I wouldn't think that I was being mean or even not attentive to another's problems, just using a short term to describe someone's race. Saying African Ameircan is just annoying. Funny sidenote, when a black skiier or something from some country in Europe won a medal at the winter olympics, the announcer really didn't know what to say, because they were the first black athlete to win a medal from that particular country. She couldn't say African American because the skiier wasn't from America, but she just couldn't call her black, which to me just seemed to defy the laws of common sense. I don't know I just think the whole thing is silly.

 

i think these two basically sum it up so far for me

 

I fail to see how that fits into the equation of Political Correctness.

Explain, if you'd be so kind.

 

I know a good definition, think 1984's newspeak.

 

It doesn't really mean anything to me because so many people use it in different ways.

 

I don't want to derail this thread, but I have a large, institutional example of Political Correctness. Years ago when my oldest kids were in Middle School, they used to have Pizza Day one Friday a month. Kids would bring in money and the school would order fresh pizzas in time for lunch.

At some point, the school stopped ordering those pizzas from Dominos <b>because Tom Monaghan was a known supporter of Right to Life organizations</b>. We're not talking Lambs of God here either; Monaghan is a devout and humble Catholic.

Honest to God, the chidren were gathered in an assembly and had this change of policy explained to them by school administrators and teacher. They were going to order the pizzas from another provider because of Monaghan's failure to support pro-Choice causes.

I was not consulted about it. To my knowledge, no one was consulted about it. How's that for political correctness run amok!

 

Giddyup- That totally stinks. The Domino's guy started a college called Ave Maria that a lot of my friends go to.

 

Do they study thin crust or stuffed crust?

I'm a "meat lover's" major!

 

Unless you left out a part about how the school was under some kind of pressure to stop ordering pizzas from a Pro-Life company, I fail to see how it's political correctness.

And even if that were the case, that would just be the school yielding to the demands of those whom it was made to serve.

I wouldn't accuse someone of "overzealous political correctness" for refusing to support something they didn't agree with, either directly or indirectly.

This is what makes this so difficult, the definition of politically correct is too vague.

 

It means more phrases to remember...

 

Isn't it political correctness de facto because their admitted only reason for making the change was to discriminate against a particular political stance of the owner of the company.

I'm not blind here. I try to not support Nazi-owned businesses when I can and I would support and participate in any kind of discriminatio against any Nazi-owned business.

There may very well have been such pressure, but I never heard about it. On the other hand, I would have put pressure on the other side... but I was never consulted.

I have no idea what went on behind the scenes because there was no discussion.

The school serves me as well and who knows how many parents of like belief. I was angered and offended by the process.

They are implying that pro-Choice is so obviosly obnoxious that the school can make a unilateral decision based on politics not the price or quality of pizza-- which is where it should have been left at.