PC Language is NOT just another way to avoid dealing with the real issue at hand!
In recent years the term ”Political Correctness” has been used more widely than ever before. It is usually used as a pejorative, not uncommonly from the right, talking down on people who they think are avoiding the truth by not offending anyone.
They are afraid that by the usage of PC language they will lose their right to offend people without being instantly labeled as racists. While instantly labeling someone as a racist is not right in any way the reason something has become PC is because someone is offended by it, almost always a minority group. See, it is always the middle aged, white man who complains about something being PC. And their right to be offensive in a thought provoking way is not the same as hurting people who are in a minority just because it is your opinion and you have the right to express it. …show more content…
And when they do you have to be able to use another, better one without people rejecting you because of being PC. In the article ”Why Al Jazeera will not say Mediterranean ’migrants’” published in Al Jazeera 20-08-2015 Barry Malone writes that they will use the word ”refugee” instead of ”migrant” because it is more accurate. This is an example of political correctness and if someone would complain about it, it would not be the
In recent years the term ”Political Correctness” has been used more widely than ever before. It is usually used as a pejorative, not uncommonly from the right, talking down on people who they think are avoiding the truth by not offending anyone.
They are afraid that by the usage of PC language they will lose their right to offend people without being instantly labeled as racists. While instantly labeling someone as a racist is not right in any way the reason something has become PC is because someone is offended by it, almost always a minority group. See, it is always the middle aged, white man who complains about something being PC. And their right to be offensive in a thought provoking way is not the same as hurting people who are in a minority just because it is your opinion and you have the right to express it. …show more content…
And when they do you have to be able to use another, better one without people rejecting you because of being PC. In the article ”Why Al Jazeera will not say Mediterranean ’migrants’” published in Al Jazeera 20-08-2015 Barry Malone writes that they will use the word ”refugee” instead of ”migrant” because it is more accurate. This is an example of political correctness and if someone would complain about it, it would not be the