Pros And Cons Of Political Correctness

1. The purpose of these articles is to persuade the general public that while the notion of political correctness deserves a warm welcome, the result of implementing policies to support the idea leaves a lot to be desired.
2. These articles do have a bias. Claire Trevett and BJ Gallagher both believe that by endeavoring to protect everyone’s feelings, the progress to build relationships and understand others’ different perspectives has led to inhibition and resentment to roam free.

3. In the newspaper article, “Offensive Or Just too Sensitive,” Trevett starts off by explaining how there is currently a politically correct war where supporters fight to remove seemingly offensive and slang words that are sometimes used in everyday language

From what I have observed when different people of different ages interact with each other, a modicum of problems associated with being offensive infrequently arise. People get along just fine without seemingly portraying themselves to be offensive to another’s culture or social identity group. Even when one inadvertently acts offensively, the other either does not notice or does not take the matter to heart because s/he is aware of the former’s intentions. In this case, political correctness does not need rules or regulation when speaking to one another in an informal setting. Instead, it should be entirely up to each party to decide if the particular words are appropriate to be used in their manner of speech. If social justice warriors were to win wide-spread support for the political correctness movement and implement a prodigious amount of strict regulations that are to be mandated, then people would be far too afraid of being punished for a “misdeed” to converse with others simply because their way of talking would be considered offensive. Hence, the effect would then lead to a lack of freedom of speech and many would have to carefully consider their words before actually saying them in front of someone they are afraid of being caught. Some may find this too time-consuming and/or thought-provoking to engage in and may therefore discard the luxury of sharing a simple conversation with someone else while in the classroom, workplace, or supermarket. Human relationships fall apart and people would be more inclined to isolate or seclude themselves from others to avoid “unnecessary” contact. Political correctness would surely cause more trouble than its worth whether it be in the long-run or