What Is Political Correctness

Political correctness is the belief of conforming the language and practices which could offend political sensibilities should be eliminated. I will argue that political correctness is not helpful to further development of our society. To support this claim, I offer three reasons. Firstly, political correctness cause misinterpretation of words. Secondly, people are being afraid of expressing their thoughts and ideas due to misinterpretation of words. Thirdly, political correctness will retrograde our society because new ideas will not be challenged.

In support of my first premise, I argue that political correctness cause misinterpretation of words. It causes a radical disconnect of words from context. An example of misinterpretation would be the word “nigger.” As a result of political correctness, we are not allowed to use it even when we should. The media censor it by itself, people give harsh critics for using the word and people are being afraid of using the word. This is absurd because it assumes that certain words have unchangeable meanings, and they are persistent regardless of context. These words cannot be used as a symbol or in a story for education or information purpose.
If they use ‘politically incorrect’ words to certain groups, a word denounced as offensive or insensitive. The term ‘political correctness’ is now being used as ‘basic manners’ and ‘respect’. Some believe the only thing they need to live correctly and morally is political correctness. Political correctness became the obstacles of our society from speaking and expressing ourselves. Never before in history have people been so afraid to stand up against absurdity for fear of being judged harshly for being ‘politically incorrect’. However, being politically correct does not make you correct. It is acting as a barrier from our mind to speak