Written by Michael Thervil
Photographer Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Believe it or not, there was a time in America where a janitor was called a janitor and not a “Custodial Worker”. There used to be a time in America where there were winners and losers. After the invention of “participation trophies” soon came the notion of what has become known as political correctness. The question of the day is “Has political correctness wrecked the will of the people in America?” There seems to be a significant 3-way split amongst the American population when it comes to how they perceive political correctness. For some, it’s considered just a change of times. For others, it's a way of life in which they have become completely oblivious to the notion of political correctness and the potential social consequences of it. And for many other people in America, they fucking hate it because they feel that it stifles growth and development.
No matter which category of the three that you may fall into, the adverse ramification over the decades of the implantation of political correctness has undoubtedly taken its toll on the American population. it’s gotten to the point that Americans have been socially conditioned to be easily offended at even the slightest notion of “abrasive speech”. When we talked to several people on this topic, they stated that they were afraid to speak out and exercise their American right to free speech in both their personal and professional life because of the fear of being banned, canceled, or ostracized, even though what they wanted to say was true and easily searchable from various vetted academic sources.
For people that are against the idea of political correctness, they feel as people that champion political correctness have done not only a disservice to the idea of what it means to be American as free speech is protected under the guise of the First Amendment according to the American Constitution. But they also feel that most people who buy into being politically correct can’t be trusted because they appear to fluff and couch their words as a way of not only masking what and how they truly feel, but it masks who they truly are. On the other hand, people who practice political correctness tend to do so because they don’t want to offend anyone. Both positions are valid.
However, the truth is, because authentically confident people have become exceedingly rare in American culture, it can be said that people who are politically correct lack both the needed self-esteem and self-confidence that is needed to operate and service in a world that can give less than a damn about them. Moreover, the “social shielding” that political correctness provides is more often than not, not a true shield at all – instead it can be argued that it’s more like an artificially created social blanket that was social constructed in order to make weak insecure people feel better about not having the wherewithal to stand toe to toe with the griping realities of life.
Political correctness in America may make people feel good, but in the same view, political correctness has not only decimated the resilience, will, and self-determination of the American public, but it has severely damaged the culture and the moral fabric of America.
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