Politically Correct: Also Known as Core-wrecked

- “Merry Christmas!”

- “I’m Jewish, asshole.”

Nowadays, the only holiday greeting we are allowed to say without getting somebody offended is ‘Happy Holidays’. What ever happened to the good ole’ days? You know, the days where sending out holiday spirit was simply wholesome and exciting, and people responded with a smile and an equally jolly response. Political correctness is what happened; and its infiltration and control of language is incorrect! The idea of political correctness (PC) came to rise in the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s when people began looking for a way to tone down the ‘harshness’ and ‘prejudice’ in the spoken language via the use of euphemisms and alternative terms such as replacing the term ‘black’ with ‘African American’ and ‘retard’ with ‘mentally disabled’.  PC is also the reason that there are so many gender-neutral names now, such as fire-fighter instead of fireman (and a million other terms that end with –man/men) and, now, on passport applications a child’s mother and father will now be signing their name under the titles “parent 1” and “parent 2”.

The intention of implanting a politically correct way of communicating was to mediate and ‘cure’ real or supposed discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, nationality, disability or any other criteria that could offend a particular group. Basically, drop a dictionary on the ground and I guarantee you that the first (any) word that your eyes glance over when you pick it up is argued as politically incorrect by someone, somewhere.

            The pussification of the world is gently tended to by the ‘protection’ of PC. Politically correct language is nothing more than an instigator and a method used to suppress our right to free speech – adding fuel to the very fire it is said to be putting out. Col. Nathan R. Jessep says it best in “A Few Good Men,’’ to Lt. Daniel Kaffee when he bursts out in anger and yells “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!” The truth hurts, so we lie; we use PC as a way to dance around the truth – well, no, scratch that – PC allows us to think whatever we want to think and say what we want to say as long as we do not actually say what we want to say because if we say what we mean to say, how we want/mean to say it, then other people will understand what it is that is being said and someone is bound to be offended! Wait, what? Well, it makes sense if you don’t think about it.