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On Political Correctness.....May 01 '05 (Updated Apr 01 '06) Write an essay on this topic.
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An issue has come up somewhere which is a recurring issue everywhere you look. This got me to thinking... which is always a bit dangerous. I've got semi-heated comment sections going surrounding this debate so I figured I may as well go ahead and get the feelings of others on this one. The subject here is Political Correctness and where do we draw the line? I mean really.. it's gotten way out control here. It's gotten to the point where people not even in the given set will decide to take offense at a given term. Take the word Fag, for instance. Non-gays get majorly bent out of shape when they hear this word, yet the majority of the Gay community does not. Why is that? The difference is that the Gay community is smart enough to see things for what they are. They know that certain idiots used the word as a weapon. To disarm said idiots, they took that word and owned it. They made the meaning a positive. They took the sting out of it by turning everything around on the idiots and I applaud them for this. Why don't other factions do the same? Is it really preferrable to waste emotion and energy choosing to take offense when it is completely in your power to disarm the word from any negativity? Let's make this a Write Off, shall we? Let's make it free-form, mostly. If you prefer answering questions straight-up then I'll go ahead and supply a few as a jumping off point: 1. What words do you choose to take offense at? 2. Are you actually a part of the group that these words are aimed at? 3. WHY do you take offense at them? 4. Not to aim at anyone in particular, but it's the first example that popped in my mind: Jew. Can you take this word and make it a positive? For example, what are the good traits of members of the Jewish community? Can you not apply those to the short form of the word and just say wow! Thanks! and take it as a compliment? (That was an example, apply this to any of the words you currently take as a slur) In fact..... 5. Name 5 positives for: Black Oriental/Asian Jewish Hispanic (insert other pet groups here) 6. Now, whenever you hear the derogative's of those terms, can you not apply the positives to them in your mind? 7. If someone chooses to take offense at a categorization, should we all enable that and switch terms? The current African American comes to mind.. what was wrong with Black? What was wrong with Negro, for that matter... The fact is that people who are recently relocated to the states from Africa take great offense at black folks here in America for insisting on being called African-American... Do we change their preferred term yet again to please every last person? Because that will never happen... someone, somewhere, is always going to choose to be offended at something.... Tell me how you feel... Don't give your gut knee-jerk here guys. Actually think about it and ponder it. I'll post your links here. ~~HonkyDoc And now, the few brave entries: Vivasuzi GermanK106 s_trimble Jo.com Guildencrantz Pranapana icicleie AliventiAsylum rooster3888 Colonialpara Underdawg gaviidae Fuche_Bu Pilarzmom CaptainD Mac Daddy Hags Munkus Voxpoptart YoungChinq Sadgit Part 1 Sadgit Part 2 matthewn  |
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