I, Sache J. Bascome, refuse to be politically correct in the times of unveiled racism, orthodox education, LGBT community uprisings, law-controlled parenting, and crap politics.
Gone are the days of hiding one's true intentions, thoughts, opinions and ideas in a mind numbing environment of soft-shelled pricks being offended by everything from being subjected to Thorndike's "Law of Effect" of mind conditioning.
Why do I refuse and believe you too should refuse to be politically correct?
Taken straight from Oxford Dictionary, political correctness, or P.C., is defined as, "the avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against."
While the definition sounds heroic, I am opposed because it evokes a false sensitivity, and voids the First Amendment, freedom of speech.
P.C. can hinder social interactions and confuse ignorance for being genuine. Having a conversation with new people can be like walking on eggshells, due to the fear of saying something offensive or what others may consider biased and/or racist. In the end they avoid casual interaction or change and restructure their thoughts and ideas. Instead of being genuine and having an open conversation without overthinking or having a social anxiety moment in school and outside of normal social factors.
Laura Haetzel from "The Students Life News" in Southern California wrote an article, "When Political Correctness Goes Too Far," which reflected on a situation that one of her friends had faced in class during an open discussion.
“The professor asked the class to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement. After a period of extended silence a fellow student told the professor, there wouldn’t be an extensive discussion on the issue because nobody would speak up out of fear of being offensive."
This is a prime example of how P.C. induces social anxiety while blocking growth in developing opinions, learning how to evaluate and understand other people’s views, and, most of all, hindering an intellectually stimulating conversation or debate.
But P.C. does some good; for instance the media. In media, journalists have to follow a code of conduct and guidelines when writing or reporting. P.C. allows for news reports to be digested easier, ensuring listeners, readers and watchers do not feel conscious about present day issues by evoking guilt, using what I call "sugar coats". But the con of having P.C in media: the Media holds the most influence over people, whether it be through social networks, television and radios. No matter what form of communication, the media is always all over it and in it. Journalism for instance; P.C. waters down stories, taking away harsh severity or realities of certain topics or an issue to avoid being biased or coming across as one-sided. Like I said, "sugar coats". Doing this takes away the writers' true intent or passion, and the "wow factor" of their piece and true nit and grit of their thoughts.
BJ Gallagher, best selling author and human relations expert wrote an article titled, "The Problem With Political Correctness", which noted that P.C. purpose and intentions are good but there is often a big gap between intent and impact. What stuck out to me about what she wrote was, “But the question is: How are we ever going to be able to live and work together if there’s a whole herd of elephants in the room?”
Basically, not telling people how you feel, believe or think because of your fear of offending someone will not solve any issues, causes people to become spineless in the face of adversity, and forces them to lean on their own understandings, rather than be open to other opinions.
In the end, while political correctness has its upsides, it has downsides as well, the majority being downsides. Political correctness is not the same as having common decency. Common decency is knowing that if you say something offensive, be prepared to get popped in the face. Political correctness falters in its definition of protecting the dignity of people and ethnicity, it hurts journalism and newsworthy stories by removing feeling and reverence from the writer’s stories. It impairs the development of social interaction between peers and public.
What Thomas Says, "In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities" - Thomas Sowell
What Sache Says, "Being Politically Correct is the Politically Correct way of being FAKE."
