What's Up With Political Correctness?
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What's Up With Political Correctness?

Why is this even a term?

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What's Up With Political Correctness?
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Within the past year or two, a term has been spiraling around on, typically, the Internet. It's a term that shouldn't even be one because it's common sense. But I guess not everyone's parents told them that if they had nothing nice to say, not to say it at all. But people still refuse to follow this simple rule in life. If this was the case, maybe I wouldn't have to constantly see Twitter and Facebook fights about pointless videos, photos and situations.

If you haven't discovered it yet, that term is political correctness, also commonly abbreviated as PC. Now, if you look up the definition of political correctness, it is described as "a term which, in modern usage, is used to describe language, policies or measures which are intended not to offend or disadvantage any particular group of people in society." So...what you're telling me is that it simply means not being rude or mean to other people and their views? Wow, who would've known?

Why is it that people can't keep things to themselves? Do you know how many videos or photos I see on social media that actually make me want to rip my own head off? But guess what. I just continue scrolling through and hope that I never have to see that ignorance ever again. But no, so many people go on and post their views (which I'm not saying is a bad thing) with just one mission: to offend as many people as humanly possible.

For all my people out there who still practice what their parents and grandparents taught them—good for you. It's extremely hard living in such a hateful world when we have to have a term used in order to simply be nice to others.

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