Being politically correct is damaging our nation. It's because we as a society, in general, can and will be offended by anything we as an individual deem as offensive. Which started the fun phrase of," I'm offended that you're offended" because not everything in life has to be so serious. As soon as December hit I remember shopping with my mom as a child and every where we went instead of saying "have a nice day" at the end of the transaction, it turned to "Merry Chirstmas!" Oh the modern day horror! Last year I had enough and decided to say it to people I had interactions with because first, I am over being lectured by a societal norm I have never met, but I also want to embrace the happiness that the season represents. If I say "Merry Christmas" to you and you say it back, great! If it isn't your holiday, then tell me and I'll wish you the most amazing Hanukkah or whatever it is you celebrate.
Political correctness is simply exhausting. Let's take the word "gay" for example. Fred and Barney would have a "gay ol' time" together, and it had nothing to do with homosexuality. Gay used to mean to be happy, joyful, full of merriment. Then it evolved into describing a homosexual person, mainly a homosexual man. As a 90's child I remember it developing into meaning stupid or lame, which wasn't PC and hurt a small fraction of people's feelings so commercials went out trying to persuade us not to use the word gay to describe those emotions. To which I say no, no I will not. Let's also sidebar here and, just for fun, show that the word lesbian evolved as saying you were gay wasn't inclusive enough for the female population of homosexuals. Ponder THAT for a second, that right there is political correctness at work!
Now let's list some things that need to end with this hyper-sensitivity to everything that some random, small, and simple minded group of people deemed to be offensive that really isn't offensive but they are offended so we should be too. Yet they think it is offensive because they want to control our behavior.
1.) Hyphenated Americans. Let's end this Mexican-American, Latino-American, African-American, Jewish-American, Irish-American, etc. I believe that if you legally live in these borders, you are an American. Period. No hyphenating needed. Be proud to live in this nation, we're one of the best places to live. We don't have nobility, we don't have a dictator, we have the ability to say what we want without fear of persecution. Celebrate your ancestry! If someone were to renounce their American citizenship and move to Canada, do you think that they call themselves American-Canadian? NO, it's just silly. Having this small group label us in such a way only goes further to divide us as a nation of people. We're stronger together than we are divided and that's what this PC group wants from this division of hyphenated labels.
2.) Gender labels. Target has removed labels of their toy aisles because of labels and unicorns and happy butterflies. Ugh. Blah! We are trying so hard to show that there aren't any differences between men and women, and to be so inclusive that we're taking away what makes us special as an individual. News flash, we are either a female or a male, and that is OK.
3.) Muslims. NO, not all of them are out to destroy. Not all of them spend every waking hour of their day thinking of ways to eliminate non-Muslims. However! There are some that are really evil who do want that and we're ignoring those who do want to harm us so we don't offend that group of people. Stop bending over backwards to hide that evil part of that religion to not offend them. By not acknowledging this group of evil we are setting ourselves up for a wake-up call none will want to face.
4.) American Pride. It is more than acceptable to be proud to be an American. Despite public schools and college campuses teaching us that we're the center of all evil in the world. Wear those American shirts, wave those flags, and do so with no shame. If the USA wasn't that awesome, then no one would want to risk death to be here.
5.) Illegal Immigrants. Yes, we do care about people suffering. Let's stop with this bending over backwards to accommodate illegals in our country and not care about our own starving in the streets. We who are against amnesty aren't wanting to give American citizenship to people who didn't honor our nation's laws to begin with. The media was focusing this whole week on whether or not the term "anchor baby" was offensive and missed the ENTIRE point on why people are upset about this issue completely.
6.) Entertainment. Jokes are just that, stop being offended over humor. Movies don't have to meet a certain quota of certain race mixes just to be diverse.
7.) Stereotypes. Not all are negative, and stop acting like the positive ones are Earth turning evil.
If you're offended at all by this article, you're probably part of the problem.
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