Correctness

Complacency refers to the lack of promotion of democratic culture by countries or societies that fit the mold of democracy. Political correctness is the fear that if a group were to publically promote their values and insist that they be universal around the world, no matter how relevant or relatable they are, they would be considered extremists. The presenting of democracy as a political…

Today’s comedians are constantly faced with criticism regarding the nature of their jokes. The rules of humour are ever-changing, and it is crucial for a good comedian to know them. A joke about a plane crash may have been a knee-slapper on September 10th, 2001, and a career-ender the next day. But apart from knowing the cultural circumstances which forbid certain jokes and encourage others, a comedian now has to respect people’s feelings, religions, personal choices, dietary habits and about a…

Sometimes it just seems like the world is filled up with more and more hatred as time goes on. For the most part society tries to follow these “Socially correct” rules of engagement with one another. These protective measures do not work. When you take a good look one can see that the disparaging judgment is implicit. These rules enable us to obscure it but the hatred is still there. I believe that to overcome this “neglect” were we brutally identify the other with some racist cliché and so on,…

respectively (Lukianoff). However, the problems that the safe space movement attempt to address run much deeper than simply speech, and controlling language should not be the course of action to attempt to solve them. The actions of the political correctness movement are essentially the equivalent of a scientist who publishes a thesis, refuses to submit to a peer-review, but still somehow expects the scientific community to accept their claims as valid. The protesting and silencing of public…

In the novel 1984, one of the most frightening aspects is “Newspeak,” the systematic destruction of language as a medium of truth. “Newspeak” is used to reconstruct the language so that any way of verbal opposition to the Party is impossible. By creating “Newspeak”, the government could remove or change the meanings of different words to assist the power of Big Brother and overall eliminate thoughtcrime. The people of Oceania are greatly controlled by “Newspeak” and the new language it has…

Following the publishing of Barry Blitt’s 2008 caricature The Politics of Fear, The New Yorker faced immediate backlash in the midst of a presidential election. The officials of Obama’s 2008 campaign denounced this illustration as “tasteless and offensive”; an attempt to separate their candidate and his spouse from the prevailing image of an extremist, pro-war, and anti-American couple that sought to support insurrectionist forces in the Middle East. This image stems directly from controversies…

intrinsic difference between censorship and political correctness. People should not censor literature, but they should definitely contradict it. Mein Kampf is an absolutely horrendous piece of literary history, but it should still serve as a testament to modern history. This does not mean that the populace should go around espousing the views represented in Mein Kampf; they should openly seek to oppose said views. This is the heat of political correctness, taking the wrong views and striving to…

Groupthink in Social Media Katrina Venta PSY 102 Professor Stommel April 21, 2016 Groupthink in Social Media Today in the United States — or anywhere in the world for that matter, there is great pressure on the need to be perceived a certain way by society. We live in a digital era and a generation of technological advancements — where our private lives aren’t so private anymore, and the need for approval is eating away our self-confidence and identity. We tweak things about…

grown in importance in the United States. The original intent of political correctness was to encourage people to become more sensitive to issues involving gender, race, and religion. Now, it has led people to avoid such topics altogether causing the middle ground or the “gray area” to become destroyed. The government would analyze the events in Ferguson but no important conclusion would be reached because political correctness doesn’t allow real debate to occur causing an even deeper…

Midterm, Regan and Midgley: Understanding the Reality of Moral Judgment According to Tom Regan in “How Not to Answer Moral Questions,” moral judgment is irrelevant to the reality of moral truth. Though such judgments require understanding, justification, sound reasoning, real-world application, and independent verification, the mere existence of such judgments does not affect the truth of the matter. In “Moral Isolationism” Mary Midgley adopts a similar conclusion to Regan, though she does so…