Evils of political correctness... an example?

you couldn't have said a truer word

And what could this ticket agent have done? Atta hadn't done anything illegal until the actual hijacking. He was in the country legally and was not carrying any prohibited item on to the plane. As they say, hindsight is 20/20. "Sensing anger" is, as long as the person is not actually acting suspicious, not sufficient grounds for keeping a person off a plane.

You should recognize that even if the ticket agent had said something there would have been no grounds to keep Atta off the plane.

Finally, this isn't an example of political correctness anyway. The political correctness that you are concerned about is deciding that someone does not fit a certain stereotype DESPITE their appearance. This ticket agent seemed to decide Atta was not a terrorist BECAUSE of his appearance (dressed as a businessman).

Basically you have no point and have only used bad logic, irrational assumptions, and unsubstantiated claims to support your own arbitrary opinion.

I notice you don't cite any source for this, so I don't know whether you or someone else just made this up.

Furthermore, even if he has said this, it's unclear whether he really thought any of this at the time, or this is a retroactive memory.

But, assuming it's correct, I still don't see what PC has to do with it. "They've got ties and jackets on" is NOT PC and has nothing to do with PC.

99.99999% of all mid easterners who board planes are NOT dangerous. That's all that PC says. Don't treat people as murderers unless there's some reason to think they are, and ethnicity is NOT a reason.

If they had been pulling over all middle easterners, they wouldn't have been any more likely to identify the bad guy than they were. If it had been known they were doing so, they would have found another way onto the plane, or gotten someone who looked European to do the job.

Suppose you'd just fought with your wife, things were going badly on the job, and you were stressed and feeling hostile when you tried to board a plane. Would it be right to harrass you, just because of that?

Why aren't you advocating all the people who failed to pay any attention to the legitimate information they had that we were going to be attacked go to war?

They probably could have stopped it, but didn't care enough to bother. Our having been attacked was a good thing in their eyes, as it's allowed them to commit crimes they could never have committed without it.

The idea that humans are all human isn't evil, mindless, brutish hate IS.

Political correctness is just another form of bias and censorship, because in the world of the politically correct it's still alright to bash Big Bad Whitey, Christians, and Jews.

It's the pitiful attempt of those who see themselves as weak to put a muzzle on those who they see as more powerful.

I remember that there were a whole lot of air rage cases just before 911. If something would have been done about that then, maybe there wouldn't have been a 911.

Political correctness leaves you very little,in rights to defend yourself.I mean to say,if your just in a situation that you are trying to be polite its OK but when it comes to applicable reasons for safety,its a must to discern the situation.It becomes a double edge sword,and the people whom are on the ugly end of it should understand,after all they chose to be in the mood/look they are in and should expect the things coming from the image they project in the outside world

Being aware of body language was not considered until after 911. Maybe this is why. What if he would have gone to his supervisor and said, "This guy looks too angry to fly today." What would they have done? Arrest him for looking angry?

That didn't have anything to do with political correctness, just everyday attitudes before 911. Now they would be detained I would imagine because that is one of the indicators for suspicion.

Forget war: Would you like to ride 37,000 feet off the ground with someone who looks like they escaped from a nut house?

I wish people like you would take a walk through the 'hood at night before you start being all uppity and politically correct.

The problem with PC is only that libs want everyone to respect the feelings of others, while the people who oppose that idea only want their own feelings respected, while being as rude and obnoxious as they can to everyone else.

Hindsight is always 20/20. Give the guy a break.

As you said sometime we are our own worst enemy, so what are we going to do about it? Elect more liberals?

So you are saying we shouldn't let angry people on planes? Talk about political correctness. You cannot blame someone for anything based on their looks.

the problem of going pc is that instead of making concessions to our differences, it lays them bare and exposes them as differences. an example is like using african american or iranian american instead of just american. it can imply that they are american, but different not truly american, but can be called as such because they are here.