Politically incorrect essays

Politically incorrect essays Report: Politically correct is such an innocent term. How can anyone be against something so friendly, something that is supposed to encourage harmony and peace between all people? My answer is Ha! Although I do agree that kindness, respect, and courtesy in our everyday life are to be promoted, it seems to me that they lose much of their meaning if they are oppressively forced upon us by political correctness. That is why there are no examples in modern times that are quite so hopeless to me as political correctness. We are becoming increasingly censored in what we can say, write, or do because of this thing we call political correctness. Racial and minority groups are slowly but surely dictating what the rest of us can say, how we can say it, and where we can say it. Some changes brought by political correctness seem long overdue, such as eliminating the widespread use of offensive racial slurs. Other proposed modifications, such as calling a female hero a "she-ro", instead of a heroine, or labeling the white race a "mutant albino genetirecessive global minority" are sillier sounding than politically sensitive. According to the B.C. comic strip, "person-person" is the politically correct term for "mailman." Political correctness hasn't gotten out of hand just here in the United States, either. Two comedians from Vancouver, British Columbia, open their act by asking the audience to stand and sing the Canadian national anthem. They lead the group in singing the first two words -"O Canada"- then stop and motion for everyone to stop singing and sit down. The two then explain that "O Canada" is the only phrase in the song that will not offend anyone: * "Our home and native land" is offensive to immigrants. * "True patriot love" irritates those liberals who see patriotism as fascism. * "In all thy sons command" angers women. * "From far and wide" offends people of large size. ...