Politically Toxic

[chimp3]

I think what this thread is about is basically around the same basis as a thread I was going to start but just couldn't be bothered.

I think a lot of this PC vs non PC thing revolves around trust or distrust in human nature and how much you think human nature needs to be governed by groups of people.

A few questions which I don't have the answer to one way or the other are....

How much of the PC culture that is going on now is the government responsible for?  And I don't mean the over the top PC culture I mean simple things like reducing racism and sexism in the work place.

Without government intervention how badly would people treat each other in the work place.

Are people who are without religion or political power hanging over them naturally sexist, racist, xenophobic people?  I mean I know religion and government sometimes causes these things but they can effectively prevent it to an extent. 

I don't live in America, but I get the impression that there's severe differences in how a lack of political intervention would work in different locations there.

This is a topic where I admit I don't know the exact answer of what is right or wrong.  I'll be on the PC side sometimes but then I'll watch a youtube video of someone who makes incredibly good arguments against government intervention in the work place and on the other hand people who are for PC make up good arguments for government intervention.

I can make an argument against government intervention all day long. That is one reason I vote libertarian. However , Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and remained a slaveowner.  It took a civil war and then the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to get people to begin behaving themselves. Almost 200 years.The opportunity was there for people to behave themselves but they did not. The cops had to be called.
Outside of the governments interventions, PC arguments are influencing  culture in other ways. The film industry is criticised for under representing minorities, stereotyping , ageism, etc. The market makes the final decisions in that area.