Political Correctness

[paulpablo]

Because words exclude and offend people.  The word negro caused slavery,

Links please. I don't think this is factually accurate.

then the word coloured caused racial inequality, now we have people of colour and it's causing real offense and exclusion.

There's pages and pages dedicated to this subject online, it's very important.

One day it's my dream that we will just find the perfect words to use in the right order and we will end all racism.

You'll have better luck plucking out people's eyes. The fact is that there are races, and that we will sometimes draw negative inferences about them. And even a willfully POSITIVE view is racist. "Black people are so musically creative," for example.

But let's be clear-- PC is NOT about stamping out racism. It's a condescending attempt to protect those weaker than "us," and by us I mean white douchebags. That's why you can say "cracker" and "honkie" until the cows come home. But you can't say "retard" or "nigger" or "bitch" because those are protected groups-- protected by us, not by their own efforts, values or achievements.

Don't you get that PC is a compound form of prejudice in which healthy white straight males get to continue feeling superior by extending protections to everyone else? If a black person hears a white person say "Oh my gawd! *gasp* You can't say the. . . N-word. It's insensitive," the right response isn't "right on, brother." It's "Fuck you, I don't need to be protected by a Starbucks-going, satchel wearing, patchouli-smelling douchebag."

I can't emphasize this enough: PC-minded people don't believe in equality. It is BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THEY ARE SUPERIOR that they dub themselves protectors of the world's sensitivies. It is because they think their voice counts, because they think they matter. It is because they feel like special little snowflakes, or like princesses on their little thrones. It is condescension. And any black person, or handicapped person, or woman, or gay person who NEEDS this kind of protection is so weak that he/she probably doesn't deserve it. Stand up for your own fucking selves instead of letting the Starbucks crowd do it for you.

I was being really really sarcastic in my last post so I have no argument with you apart from I think you made a lot of blanket statements which may or may no be true depending on the situation.

My whole point is that I think it's ridiculous there are pages and pages dedicated to trying to find the right word to call a black person as if that will end racist attitudes if you recite the correct magic words.