Pros And Cons Of Political Correctness

In the last round of Groves debate tournament, the topic of the session was global warming and green energy. Having encountered the case multiple times prior, with a multitude of credible evidence cards, I was confident in my argument against the validity of anthropogenic global warming. However, after the two hour long round concluded, the judge declared that the negative, our team, had lost. Dumbfounded, I inquired for the reason for our defeat. The judge, in a disgusted expression, exclaimed that our argument against man made climate change was “offensive.” I attempted to appeal through reemphasizing my evidences and reasoning, but the judge only shot back with emotional rebuttals. Initially, I, puzzled by the judge’s sanctimony, stood still …show more content…
Political correctness often manipulates the media into only projecting biased informations that conform with the standards of, mostly, the leftist ideology. A clear example of this phenomenon is the fat acceptance movement. Anti fat shaming today is often taken to extremes by politically correct social justice groups, often resulting in vandalism of advertisements that depict physically fit models and the pressure on media outlets to forcefully include overweight models. Vanessa Friedman, the chief fashion critic of New York Times, in her article “Don’t Ban Photos of Skinny Models,” effectively debunks the absurdity of the fat acceptance movement by stating “Just because a judgment is supposedly coming from a good place does not obviate the fact that it's a personal judgment, handed down from afar by a third party, bringing another set of prejudices and preconceptions to bear” (Friedman). In this case, the politically correct fat acceptance movement is perpetuating an another division in the society by spurring a debate on how much one should weigh which creates an another set of judgement against a segment of population that are lean. However, this is only a miniscule part of the impact of political correctness on media. In the big picture, political correctness encourages self censorship of media outlets in order to prevent public outrage, instigating social marxism and limiting freedom of expression. This is especially dangerous since media influenced by political correctness will report negatively on those who do not conform with its biased mindset, destroying freedom of speech through eliminating any opposing