“Some people believe the possibility of giving offense… to be more important than stating the truth…” Dr. Dutton touches on a point that is all too true in our society today. The fact is, people are going to think that you are racist, sexist, or maleficent if you are not politically correct. This does more damage than benefit, for political correctness was created to help bring awareness to what people state , so as to not publicly offend others. Rather than using Political Correctness as it was intended to be used, people twist its meaning, warping it to benefit their needs for professional, personal gain. Political rightness is a term fundamentally utilized as a pejorative to portray dialect, activities, or approaches planned not to irritate
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Gamson, "Bloom's Closing of the American Mind...attacked the faculty for 'political correctness'." Professor of Social Work at CSU Tony Platt goes further and says the "campaign against 'political correctness'" was launched by the book in 1987.
Mass media use of the term is generally attributed to journalist Richard Bernstein's series of articles for The New York Times between 1988 and 1991. Lorna Weir, in a word search on the database Infomart of six "regionally representative Canadian metropolitan newspapers", found 153 articles in which the terms "politically correct" or "political correctness" appeared between January 1, 1987 and October 27, 1990. In May 1991 The New York Times had a follow-up on the topic, according to which the term was increasingly being used in a wider public arena only 7 months after the previous article:
The already clouded far-left term got to be regular coin in the vocabulary of the moderate social and political difficulties against dynamic showing systems and educational modules changes in the optional schools and colleges of the U.S. Approaches, conduct, and discourse codes that the speaker or the author viewed just like the inconvenience of a liberal universality, were depicted and scrutinized as "politically …show more content…
This had a direct impact on news coverage of relatively sensitive political issues. The Chinese authorities exerted pressure on individual newspapers to make them clean up their act. Tung Chee-hwa's policy advisers and senior bureaucrats increasingly linked their actions and remarks to "political correctness." Zhaojia Liu and Siu-kai Lau, writing in The first Tung Chee-hwa administration : the first five years of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said that Hong Kong has traditionally been characterized as having freedom of speech and freedom of press, but that an unintended consequence of emphasizing political 'correctness' is to limit the space for such freedom of
Gamson, "Bloom's Closing of the American Mind...attacked the faculty for 'political correctness'." Professor of Social Work at CSU Tony Platt goes further and says the "campaign against 'political correctness'" was launched by the book in 1987.
Mass media use of the term is generally attributed to journalist Richard Bernstein's series of articles for The New York Times between 1988 and 1991. Lorna Weir, in a word search on the database Infomart of six "regionally representative Canadian metropolitan newspapers", found 153 articles in which the terms "politically correct" or "political correctness" appeared between January 1, 1987 and October 27, 1990. In May 1991 The New York Times had a follow-up on the topic, according to which the term was increasingly being used in a wider public arena only 7 months after the previous article:
The already clouded far-left term got to be regular coin in the vocabulary of the moderate social and political difficulties against dynamic showing systems and educational modules changes in the optional schools and colleges of the U.S. Approaches, conduct, and discourse codes that the speaker or the author viewed just like the inconvenience of a liberal universality, were depicted and scrutinized as "politically …show more content…
This had a direct impact on news coverage of relatively sensitive political issues. The Chinese authorities exerted pressure on individual newspapers to make them clean up their act. Tung Chee-hwa's policy advisers and senior bureaucrats increasingly linked their actions and remarks to "political correctness." Zhaojia Liu and Siu-kai Lau, writing in The first Tung Chee-hwa administration : the first five years of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said that Hong Kong has traditionally been characterized as having freedom of speech and freedom of press, but that an unintended consequence of emphasizing political 'correctness' is to limit the space for such freedom of