Arguments Against Political Correctness

The issue of political correctness has always been a source of controversy, but it has came to the forefront in the past few years because of the increase of liberalism, people wanting ultimate equality especially in the words we speak. Political correctness is a highly debated argument because the two sides arguing have such different views. The ones against political correctness say it is a violation of their right to free speech, while the ones for it say it is absolutely necessary to regulate some of your language in order to not offend someone. Both sides of the argument do make very valid points and that is why this topic is so heavily argued. It is a grey area the matter is not black and white neither side is really right or wrong. But

There is multiple different ideas of what exactly political correctness is and what it does from people all over and that wave of confusion can sometimes cause people to misunderstand the exact point of political correctness. It is to make someone feel better walking around their town, to know that they are gong to get treated no matter what their physical features of spiritual beliefs are. The ones that oppose political correctness are known to basically have their own version of political correctness called ‘patriotic correctness’. Unlike with political correctness people do not flaunt around the idea of patriotic correctness by name and some might not even know this is what they are expressing by way of their words and actions. Patriotic correctness is seen as an excuse for people to say whatever they want to or about whoever because it is in the defense of American nationalism. We see this a lot now a days in the issue of old relics from America’s history wanting to continue being used even if said relic is offense to a people group in today’s society. That debate has been one of the most controversial this year and the root of it stems from the question of ‘how politically correct should we be?’ is it a big enough deal to ban certain items or is that taking away you ‘American

Trump has been widely known for his serious lack of political correctness, he was not afraid to speak his mind no matter what it was he was or who he was hurting by saying this. Some speculate that this could be a reason Trump had victory in the election, people saw his avid lack of political correctness refreshing and thought it was what America needed. This fact alone is kind of frighting because America voted for a man partially because of him not caring about the hurtful things he says about people he is going to be the president of. It makes you seriously wonder if this was just people being ignorant and wanting to rebel or if they actually thought this was some type of advantage in the presidential race. This along with the previous mentioned debate over the use of old artifacts show the way that political correctness is affecting America and it’s not a very subtle effect. As for the people worried about getting the right to free speech taken away, everyone should absolutely have that right but there is a line crossed when that right is used to hurt people because of parts of their life. When the use of free speech is to be completely ignorant to people who do not deserve it thats when things need to be regulated and looked at. When looking at reasons as to why people have a dislike for political correctness it usually come back to