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Do you feel that we(America) have become too politically correct?

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago
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    What we call "politically correct" is only one manifestation of the problem. The real issue is that we've lost touch with what it means to have rights. We've come to call everything a right (right to healthcare, right to not encounter anything I find offensive, right to a good job, etc.), and in doing so, have diluted the respect Americans once had toward basic human rights. So, some of us are more politically correct, some of us hate them for it, and all of us act like there is no right or wrong in any of this.

  • 2 decades ago

    Absolutely. Free expression and ideals are one of the founding principles of the United States and political correctiveness is muting that. People are becoming too complacent.

    There are ways of expressing one's views with tact and grace that are not necessarily "politically correct."

    This country could use a good revolution...

  • netjr
    Lv 6
    2 decades ago

    Politically correct and intolerant at the same time of opposing views. The far left is totally intolerant of Bush and conservative \ religous views. The far right is totally intolerant of the lefts social and socialist agenda. Sad...

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    We absolutely have. We better leave most

    things the way they've been as we have

    people who are even corrupting the history

    of the U.S. and kid's textbooks don't have

    Washington or LIncoln but rather Martin

    Luther King. They are all a part of our history

    so let's not delete any but include all.

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  • Umm, yes!!! There's a difference between being polite & PC. Have a sense of humor for sanity's sake!

  • 2 decades ago

    Politically correct and socially, expressively perverse. Technically precise and abjectly distant from issues. These are strange times, no?

  • 2 decades ago

    No. The backlash about this usually uses some made-up awakwardness to pretend it is a problem.

    I see no reason to bring back racial slurs, misogynistic television commercials or insults to the handicapped?

    Why do you think it should be?

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    Definitely. It became acute in the 90's and currently there are too many ultra-sensitive types who need to get it together and get out of their fetal position.

  • 2 decades ago

    No way. Some people have, but look at all the others who make fun of blacks, Mexicans, people of other religions, etc.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    We are not to talk on behalf of mobs passing by a Free Trade Zone (VANITY FAIR)...

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