Week 3 Re: Political Correctness

This post is in response to an assignment to read the following article on political correctness:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181015,00.html

This article shows us that political correctness is not only "alive and well" in America, but probably spreading like a bad case of poison ivy. The surprising thing is that the general public has not starting calling for the political heads of the fools who continue to push for this idiotic waste of time and money.

I agree with Anthony Browne, who says in the article "It [political correctness] has now become a hindrance to social progress and a threat to society," Browne said. "By closing down debates, it restricts the ability of society to tackle the problems that face it." We are no longer able to freely debate and comment on issues without the fear of being labelled a racist, a sexist, or a homophobe. If you don't believe me, try talking about some of these issues and you will find yourself silenced by the people who equate just discussing certain topics to be "hate speech". Care to ponder why native born black Americans are economically far behind the income level of immigrant blacks? Don't do it unless you want to be called a racist. Want to discuss the Bible's teachings on homosexuality? Better not, that is "hate speech" against gays and you'll be called a homophobe. Want to explore the issue of why there are so few women studying math and engineering in America ? Be careful, not only is that hate speech too, you'll probably be labelled a sexist, just as the President of Harvard College was when he ventured to say perhaps it was not so much that women were under the subjection of a male dominated society as possibly that women were not as interested in studying math and science as men. The poor man had to rephrase his statement to "toe the party line" that it must be because women were being downtrodden,virtually guaranteeing that the idea would never be seriously examined since no one else would make the same mistake of questioning the politically correct mantra and becoming the center of a firestorm of controversy.

The political correctness article continued on, telling about a polictical correctness problem in Costa Mesa, California. The City Council there permitted the police to question serious crime suspects about their immigration status. It is illegal to be here illegally, if people are here illegally, they are breaking our law. But the reward the City Council received for this was to be picketed by a "pro-immigrant group" who labelled them as "racist" and the mayor, who supported the council, as a "bigot". So much for trying to uphold the law, anyone who sees what happened in Costa Mesa will think twice about bringing up the subject of illegal immigration unless they intend to bow to the politically correct view of the subject.

The politically correct crowd has not been voted into power by the people, they just holler loud and insult long enough to intimdate any thoughtful dissent.