Wednesday, October 7, 2009
The Dangers of Political Correctness. By- Austin Reichert
On page 58 Beatty talks about the issue that created book burning in the society. This issue that we deal with today too is political correctness. After all the books and school are dumbed down to make reading and learning fast and fun people became offended by books. Without the intelect to have an opinion, the people that were offended started to burn the books to make every one happy. Books that offended them because of their nationality were burned because noone stood up and said no. The scariest thing about this was that even companies could get books burned if they talked bad about their company. I see many of these same these same things in our society today. This is a scary though because people are always sueing people for racism and political correctness. People are always worried about what they are going to say and do because they could offend someone. As the book goes on I will expand this idea on this blog. If you have any examples of crazy political correctness please comment. -Austin Reichert
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I found an article on the history of political correctness at the following site.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ourcivilisation.com/pc.htm
Thanks for the introspective post, Austin. We'll look forward to hearing your expansions and what others have to say on this topic as we move forward. I remember back when the days of PC started (at least grew in prominence). One of the very rudimentary applications of this was the insistence that 'he' was not an okay term for general mankind. All of sudden, all papers needed to say he/she to avoid offending the females; after all, men and women are equal. I remember being irritated because he/she cluttered up my paper, but even more importantly, I didn't understand why people couldn't step outside of their boxes enough to see beyond themselves; why was it all about me, me, me? "I'll be left out if you don't put a 'she' in that paper." "I'll be degraded." "I won't have as much worth as the males you mentioned." People thought these responses rather than forgetting about slighting themselves for the sake of cleaner writing and concise thoughts. Is this the same as dumbing down writing? Probably not, but is it a start?
ReplyDeleteIs it possible--just a thought I had right in this moment--that as a whole, we are not happy in society either? Are we more like Mildred than we like to admit in the sense that we fill our lives with various activities and comments that make us feel better about ourselves rather than realizing that not everyone is out to get us when they say something wrong?
I need to be done now. I couldn't help but respond, though. It's like an online book club! Come on, class! Start posting! It's great fun.
~Mrs. Stoller
I do think it is a start on dumbing down society to make us all happy and satisfied because we are "politicaly correct", but the question I want to ask is can we ever completely be politicaly correct and not offend anyone?
ReplyDelete-Austin Reichert