I'm tired of everybody and everything having to be "politically correct". Nobody wants to offend or put off anybody else so we feel like we have to beat around the bush or disguise our language. All that this is doing is making ourselves even easier to offend and at the same time weakening our language. I'm done with political correctness. Let's just be politically accurate. If what you are saying is true, but still offends someone then so be it. The truth can be offensive sometimes, but whatever. Lets just use good old common sense and be true to ourselves. I wanted to make this thread to see if anybody here feels the same way about the whole 'politically correct' movement. If you don't feel the same way then please voice your opinion as well. If this thread just doesn't fit into the politics sub-forum then I understand and am fine with it being moved/deleted.
Colt you gotta read the socialist books that are going mouldy in the cellar/loft/school library... 'Common sense' is the perceived standard that the state/government/ruling class want you to accept as 'the norm' or accepted situation. 'Correct sense' is what you should have - forming your own opinion based on your own experience/judgement. I'm saying that if you use correct sense that will free you from this trap of 'political correctness' that you complain about. If you express correct sense you cannot be criticised as you have every right to say or think whatever that opinion is - as your experiences are different to everyone else's. But then you drop a clanger by introducing 'truth'. Many thousands of intellectuals with brains 1000 times mine have failed to define this, so frankly just forget it..... except of course that politicians should be made to tell it!?
Sorry, I didn't mean 'common' sense as in believing and following the status quo (guess I should've looked into the "common" part), but actually quite the opposite; like how you described - using your own logic and reasoning to form an opinion.I wholly agree. I want people to start using their heads more and think about why they say things and what they are actually saying by using phrases that are so abundantly thrown around. I guess I should also do this (especially in my own thread).
haha for real... the ones that scare me though are the sneakier ones than him. but thats beside the point, fuck PCness