Political Correctness In Juan Williams 'Defying The PC Police'

Political Correctness’ Destructive Nature Political correctness is an issue that is slowly but surely steering the way that Americans speak to one another into a direction that is shrinking the thesaurus in our brain, causing us to become less aware, and less intelligent as a country. It has become so extreme in the past two decades, that politicians are using extreme correction as a way to twist their rival’s words into slander and make them out as a bigot. The biggest problem with political correctness is the censorship it causes in the media and the softening of the skin of all Americans, which is resulting in the lack of information being given to the people. In turn, this kills the most popular resource for up to date news and truths

“Look Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written on civil rights in this country. But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see someone in full muslim garb clearly identifying themselves as Muslim, I get nervous” (Williams 248). Soon after that statement made on the Bill O’Reilly Show, Williams was fired from his job, and labeled a racist and bigot on talk shows and articles around the nation. Had all these talking heads, writers and American people considered the true definition of what they so quickly labeled Juan Williams, they might reconsider the names used to describe the statement made that day. He simply expressed his concern in public following the events that occurred on September 9th, 2001 and was harshly punished for it. Many Americans, perhaps many of those who struck Juan with the fist of political correctness, had and still have the same thoughts when they see a fully garbed Muslim on a plane, Juan just had the courage to express it to the public. The media automatically took it as an insult to the entire muslim religion, which was clearly not the intent. Aggressive defense of the Muslim people was put up to protect the public from these “racist comments,” where there did not ever need to be any. This is one of the hundreds of examples where a public expression

Legal and cultural changes over the past forty years resulted in numbers of women and people of color into companies’ professional and managerial ranks. Despite these remarkable advances made in the United States world of business, the political correct side of things is a double edged sword. “While it has helped many traditionally underrepresented employees to experience their workplace as more inclusive, the PC rule book can hinder employees’ ability to develop effective relationships across potentially divisive group differences. Companies need to equip workers with skills—not rules—for building these relationships” (Davidson). Essentially, a company cannot mandate a high-quality relationship as successfully as one that is formed through discussion and learning tools rather than laws. A lot of the time, it is minorities who continue to struggle with the politically correct business world. “Minorities” a lot of the time feel that they cannot discuss their concerns about fairness and fears about feeding into negative stereotypes, and that adds to an atmosphere in which people tiptoe around the issues and one another. These dynamics breed misunderstanding, conflict, and mistrust, negatively impacting both managerial and overall team effectiveness. This could be a woman that feels as though she cannot ask for help from