Why Political Correctness Was Destined to Fail

Why Political Correctness Was Destined to Fail

Rules like “Don’t say that!” and “Don’t do that!”, create superstitions instead of understanding. The world does not need any more superstitions. The world needs more understanding. Treating people like children that can not be trusted to choose their own words, or actions, based on their own beliefs, or intentions, creates resentment. In the Politically Correct or P.C. Movement, a few people set themselves up as the moral, or ethical, compass for the entire planet. Suddenly, many confused people found out they could no longer do this, or say that. Some of these new rules made sense and some of them made no sense at all. As a result even the P.C. rules that made sense have become the butt of jokes. A gravely concerning backlash has resulted from Political Correctness and carelessness of the rules it demanded to the point of giving fuel to hate groups. If this not was not bad enough, some in the P. C. Movement also attempted to control one of our most intimate areas of life, our romantic lives.

Hypocrisy and Stupidity

The failure to change the term “Redneck” into “European American whose ancestors were exploited in one or more forms of servitude and continue to be exploited by industrial, educational, and social systems” was perhaps the biggest downfall of the P.C. Word Police. However if they had done this, other P.C. Word Police would not have been able to say “Shut up! Shut up! You’re just a stupid Redneck!” when a debate stopped going their way. This failure to understand, research, or admit to the slavery origins of the term “Redneck” by most of those promoting Politically Correctness voided the entire movement of credibility. Don’t Rednecks like being called Rednecks? That’s not the point. Credibility is gained by consistency and that is the point. I have witnessed at least five thousand seven hundred thirty eight times P.C. Word Police call people “Rednecks”.

What I find even more ridiculous and offensive is when P.C. Word Police, who happen to be Caucasian have to nerve make the correction, “You mean African-American” , when a Black person uses the term “Black”. I have personally seen this happen more than fifty times in my life. In The 1970’s, Black was beautiful and now Black people cannot say the word because it might offend a White Upper Middle Class College Student? Give me break, please! I might take P.C. Word Police seriously if they attempted to make people use the term “Human” instead of all these ridiculous distinctions that can be and have been transformed into derogatory terms instead of the polite terms they were intended to be.
The Intentions of Words are Subjective.