POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

Some years ago they had a saying: “sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never harm you”. “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.” has changed the depth and meaning of that old saying. If you use the wrong word you can be chastised as offensive, insensitive, racist, sexist, and homophobic and more Recently the word extremist was used on the “View” in reference to 9/11 and the building of a mosque, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off the set over the word extremist. The expression of this idea. word, action or opinion created hysteria. Instead of a civil debate we had adults behave like children.

Twenty or thirty years ago comedians made a living off of ethnic jokes; people laughed and enjoyed the humor. The Archie Bunker/All In The Family Show entertained millions in the 1970”s with ethnic humor. Some complained but it had little affect on its popularity... Today’s comedy depends on vulgarity and sexism. It’s entertainment that exhibits a lack of discipline and character. Its popularity can be found in poor ratings. Ethnic jokes lost out to political correctness and vulgarity. In the process we’ve lost the art of humor and laughing at ourselves. Political correctness has gone so far as to attempt to ban the Nativity Scene at public places at Christmas time, greeting people with Merry Christmas was to be replaced by Happy Holidays, Santa’s Ho Ho was misconstrued as something evil, and the White House no longer sends Christmas Cards because they believe it can be offensive. The White House banned the word terrorism
and replaced it with “Manmade Disaster”. Political correctness has become a way to confront someone who disagrees with your opinion in a way to create fears to dismantle your beliefs and traditions. That’s not political correctness, that’s political incorrectness. Someone termed it social demolition.

If someone can turn the American Flag upside down, and degrade the traditions and customs of America without retribution, than I say it’s time to put an end to political correctness. Yes, every human being deserves respect but not at the cost of every word or action being censored. We cannot be intimidated by the agenda and demands of those presented under the guise of “Political Correctness”. It’s time to replace Political Correctness with plain old COMMON SENSE.