Political Correctness and Diversity have been two of my pet peeves. My generation (I was born in the 1930s) wasn't constrained by the over sensitive society that we live in today. We were taught the importance rational thinking, the exchange of ideas, speaking our mind, and being able to defend your stand on the issues being discussed. We truly had First Amendment Rights. Express your opinions without fear of reprisal, the exception being slander on an others character.
Political Correctness is a bane to free speech, it violates our First Amendments Rights by not allowing individuals to articulate their true thoughts and ideas on Persons, entities, cultures, government, as well as a multitude of other subjects that are taboo, without the fear of the ACLU or some Government entity filing law suits against the individual for expressing his or her opinion.
Until we as a country get past political correctness, racial profiling issues, feely good diversity, and the fear of offending someone with our words, the American Flag or the mention of the word God, and worrying about what other countries think about us, Our unique American Culture will continue to disappear into oblivion.
The recent massacre at Ft. Hood Texas, President Obama displayed political correctness by not calling the mass murder Major Nidal Hasan the Islamic terrorist he is. There are mountains of evidence he is a radical Jihadi............no doubt about it. there are mountains of empirical evidence that cannot be denied. No doubt Political Correctness has allowed him to survive for 9 years in the United States Army, with no one having the intestinal fortitude to investigate this guy and put him away. Those in a position to question this guy's true allegiance did nothing to stop him. So we have the tragedy of those fine young soldiers becoming the victims of an attack by an Army Officer whom they were (through military decorum) taught to trusted implicitly.
God Bless American, and pray for the families of the Ft. Hood victims.
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Political correctness, in most cases, is an action or characterization that is counterintuitive to one's own instincts. In other words, it's the opposite of intellectual honesty. It is how cowards avoid taking a stand on logical principles or values. To say that you can offend my sensibilities and I will, in turn, respond in a way that condones your behavior is destructive to our culture. It’s far more destructive than people think. Everyone must deal with the true consequences of their choices. I will not be made to feel uncomfortable so that some miscreant doesn’t have to.
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