Political correctness requires us to translate marxism from economic language, into cultural language. The main premise forming the essence of political correctness is that through the elites ability to dictate our language, comes their control over the way we act, therein socially engineering society for their own purpose. Political correctness can be described as the barring of expressive and activistic forms confirmed by “correct thinkers” to be exclusionary, insulting or marginalising in respect to minority groups who are discriminated against or socially disadvantaged. The intended corruption of news media, congress, universities, pop culture, politics and our industrial society can be credited to the conscious, manipulating force known …show more content…
As a result of this, certain classifications of people have been appointed ‘cannonised mortals’ and are viewed as somewhat unwontedly innocent and good irrespective of how these individuals may actually behave. Hence, the preaching of radical feminists who spawned the idea that men living in today 's society must expiate the offences committed by their forefathers against women. This act of deliberate stereotyping has since warped the archetype of the modern white man who is now considered in the realm of political correctness, to be automatically and somewhat universally of a malicious, immoral and needless to say, misogynistic psyche. While the victims of ‘political incorrectness’ are constitutionally entitled to articulate their views, equal entitlement does not belong to their opposers. Those who are among politically correct thinkers decree particular words as correct and others as incorrect, on the basis that they are ‘harmful’, thereby making themselves exempt from competition against those ideas that oppose their own. Political correctness grants us a whole new vocabulary with which it is easy to be blamed and even easier to be a …show more content…
Thereby attaining conformity and a multiculturalist form of ‘groupthink’. When our ability to think critically is thwarted, so is our freedom. New Zealand must not become a nation alienated from itself and its right to truth by an ideology based in non-reality. We must oppose political correct doctrine at all costs and strive for truth through the employment of arguments based in rationality, reality and logic. The disambiguation of our language and our rights to freedom of expression are imperative, or else, western society will endure further the crippling effects political correctness, and it’s
In 1989, women’s rights were on fire, especially in the eyes of feminist Peggy McIntosh. At this time, she created an article titled “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” that inspected just that: white privilege. As expected, she forms an argument that argues against those who do not recognize their all-too-common- white privilege. After looking into the structure of “White Privilege”, a few obvious aspects make the piece successful in what it does. Overall, the format of the article allows for ease of a compelling reading.
This sys, however wasn’t limited to race and can be applied similarly to gender stereotypes”. (Mandi) McIntosh has made a great example of herself, by providing real life examples of her white privilege. With the proof of McIntosh’s advantage in our society, she strongly suggest that all who hold such privileges should use it to undermine the oppressive system, we all live in.
Have we, as a people, become so fearful to speak what is actually on our minds in the society that we live in? Are we scared that we may offend someone, and have our job taken away from us because of something we have said? In the article, “I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me,” Edward Schlosser suggests that students are limiting how professor are able to lecture them. Schlosser is also worried that he may even have his job revoked from him if he slightly upset or offend any of his students. In our society, political correctness has reached an all-time high in the 21st century.
In the McIntosh article, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” my overview of this article for the reading assignment is that “white privilege,” as McIntosh states, is “an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was meant to remain oblivious.” This revelation came as she was writing an observation article on white male privilege in America. Her reviews in this area began in her discoveries of men’s unwillingness to recognize their over-advantage status, however they would concede the impediment condition of women. These denials protected male privilege from being acknowledged, diminished, or abridged. Her findings concerning unattended white privilege may be key to bigotry.
Some more Special Pleading is presented when she claims that her “buzzwords” “…someone speaking out against lazy, offensive language, that doesn’t usually get challenged” (1:38) you could essentially extend this to analously apply to […someone speaking out against lazy, insulting language, that doesn’t usually get challenged…] for people “calling out” people for being “too PC”. Why does her choice of language get a pass while the language she is criticizing doesn’t, this is simply bias in favor of her language choice. Another fallacy that non sequitur, “In fact, political correctness is expanding free speech. We’re adding words to the dictionary to the dictionary every year in an effort to promote more inclusive and respectful speech”(2:57), more words does not mean more free speech, if this was the case, people who knew multiple languages would have extreme amounts of free speech, but this is not the case, free speech is saying what you want, and if someone is making words for you to say, it’s not your speech it’s theirs.
They implicate that a woman must modify the way she speaks to be more like that of a man’s in order to demand respect and retain authority. Cameron’s article exemplifies how words as simple as “just” and “sorry” are used to place women in an inferior position. Women’s use of these words alters the perceptions of others and makes them seem less confident and authoritative. This in turn changes the way in which men collaborate with
Political correctness can be important because people should be aware of their word choice, and use of certain names or terms so they are not making one gender appear less than the other. Although people should be respectful of others opinions, we also should embrace what makes men and women different rather than blending them together to appear as a single
I challenge that false doctrine of human behavior.” Social and political correctness will change
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Political correctness’ historical roots lie in a variation of Marxism which sees culture, rather than the economy, as the site of class struggle. Much like Marxism, political correctness is deemed as a totalitarian ideology, where it used as a means to limit free thought. It’s origins can be traced back to the installation of the Frankfurt School in 1923. The school was founded with the intention to develop
George Washington once said “If the freedom of speech is taken away then the dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to slaughter ("Sherwin" par. 2). ” Political correctness is having a negative effect on people today. It limits free speech and is deleting the history of our country. It also is making young adults weaker, and it gives rights to some people while taking rights away from other people. Political correctness is negatively affecting our society.
There is a famous saying that goes, “sticks and stones may break me but words cannot.” This is false as often people are genuinely hurt or offended by certain comments and an offensive comment may have a lasting downing effect on the person. Hence political correctness is to a degree essential and important to our society however it is necessary that do not over impose political correctness as it censors our society to the extent that it is bland and meaningless and in extreme instances it make our society hypocritical as it makes people hide their true view and