What´s Political Correctness Objective?

Hey, you can’t say that. The Oxford Living Dictionaries defines political correctness as “The avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against (Oxford University Press).” While it is all well and good to do our best not to offend others, it becomes a problem when we start to censor the truth, or worse alter it to fit our view point or “group of the moment.” Political correctness is not freedom of speech but rather could suppress potential truths, obliterate historical facts, and has the unfortunate tendency to be subjective. Political correctness is a rash and unreasonable way to make others respect the people around them. Putting such restraint on our freedom of speech, which is the right to speak what a person believes, is causing many people to miss the real point. People tend …show more content…
While one person may perceive a fact as being offensive, another individual may see it as harmless. This is the same concept as political correctness. For example, when I was working in Food Lion I said Merry Christmas during the holiday season. A certain customer did not like that I had said Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays but to me I didn’t do anything wrong. Which is why it is difficult to define what is correct because every individual has their own perception of what reality is. In a world with so many varying opinions and viewpoints, it remains virtually impossible to please everyone. There are some benefits to political correctness. It can open people’s eyes to issues they may have become blind to or may have been taught that this is just the way things are such as the suppression of African Americans. However, being politically correct is far different from giving respect to other. Instead of being able to rationalize in a reasonable way we have pushed for the extreme of only one