What's Wrong With Being PC? Consideration For Others Is Common Decency. It's Morality

PoliTalker said:
Hello Heff,



A good post, Heff. Thanks for bringing this. George could find a way to effectively argue nearly anything. But, of course, there is a time and a place for such entertainment.

Love George Carlin. He was a great entertainer. Very witty. Makes ya think. And he was at the forefront of opposing political correctness. But that was only because he made a living out of being politically incorrect. I only had to listen to the clip for one minute before hearing George say he wasn't sure if restricting and controlling people's language was the way to fight discrimination.

Being politically correct is a choice, not a restriction or a control.

Everyone is free to speak as they please.

And those hearing them are also free to think what they will about what is being said. They are free to draw whatever impressions they might from what was said.

Everybody knows George was trying to elicit a laugh. George got paid for saying things that some might think, but might not say.

Why wouldn't people just say anything that came into their minds?

Because if they do, they might hurt somebody's feelings.

Most people don't want to go around hurting others.

Most people don't want the stigma of being somebody who is insensitive to others.

That would be selfish.

The world is getting more and more crowded with humans. Since we won't do anything about it, it is becoming increasingly important to learn to get along well with others. That is usually an important requirement for working. It is often found on employee reviews. How well does the worker get along with other workers and customers? Selfish people who score poorly on this don't do well as workers. You wouldn't want somebody insensitive to be part of your customer service team. That would be a good way to drive off business. In this instance, being politically incorrect would wreck capitalism.

Selfish people who don't get along with others don't do well in society. Nobody wants to be treated insensitively by others. People like to be a functioning part of a team, group, or community. Somebody who says hurtful things about others causes dysfunction. That causes people to stop being productive and wonder about how this person could be so insensitive.

Being politically incorrect is not about not being able to express oneself. It is about understanding how to express oneself while still being considerate of others.
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I completely agree with you. Manners and respect are very important when dealing with others. But political correctness isn't manners and respect, but more an excuse for the more puritanical among us to implement speech codes and a general culture of censorship. What I find worse is the obfuscation of plain language, and worrying about what the puritanical might think stifles speech and thought.

Thanks for the reasonable take.
 
Hello Heff,

Heff said:
I completely agree with you. Manners and respect are very important when dealing with others. But political correctness isn't manners and respect, but more an excuse for the more puritanical among us to implement speech codes and a general culture of censorship. What I find worse is the obfuscation of plain language, and worrying about what the puritanical might think stifles speech and thought.

Thanks for the reasonable take.
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You're welcome,

And thanks for the candid view.

I think what has happened is that the media was once highly controlled and government regulated. Now it isn't. When the major networks controlled all of the programming they adhered to high standards of decency. (Some of that 'decency' excluded blacks from wholesome settings.) The language was all vanilla.

Now we have the internet and less regulation, so people can say what they feel like saying. And plenty of them do. But that doesn't mean those who would prefer more sensitivity do not object to crude and insensitive language.

One thing that I've noticed is that young people think it's cool to use foul language. That's a tricky freedom for immature minds deal with. They quickly find out there are places and settings where such language is not acceptable.

I think the "PC police" prefer that such language is not acceptable in the general public, but the anti-PC people disagree.

I align with the more PC crowd. I think if we accept trash talk and crude comments about disrespected groups of people, then it hurts the USA: It does not Insure The Domestic Tranquility to be inadvertently putting some of us Americans down. And it makes us sound crass. It's not cool. Not cool at all.
 
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