Political Correctness Movement

Oleanna Essay Nowadays, it’s difficult to voice your opinion without offending someone and their views. To avoid doing this, society is suppose to follow this thing called Political Correctness. Political Correctness is the avoidance of racial slurs and actions that could offend someone and their views. Sometimes it is often viewed as being too extreme and ridiculous. The Political Correctness movement has affected the way society views culture nowadays because, there is a rise in feminism, colleges now prohibit certain words and sayings, and people have to generalize holidays. The PC movement has been on the rise in the last 20 years. One major group it has affected is a group called feminist. Feminism is a campaign for women’s rights to provide equality. This kind of PC has taken effect on what words we use to define people and how women are completely equal to men. Nowadays it is

Just Words is a campaign that raises awareness of how words can impact one another and to encourage others to try and think about what words that should not be used. The colleges are using this campaign by putting up posters all around to make sure the students are recognizing what is going on. UW-Milwaukee shows posters with words that they do not want students to use and the meaning to how the words are offensive. The article says, “...Just Words posters include: ‘lame’ which ‘ridicules and ignores the lives of amputees’; ‘man up,’ which ‘suggests there is only one way to be a man, also suggests that women can’t be courageous, strong, etc.’”(Melchior). This shows how there are phrases that many people would not consider offensive that are now considered to be offensive and are strongly frowned upon to use. The colleges are following the PC movement by sort of banning these words on campus to try to avoid any conflict. The PC movement is in effect with colleges to keep everyone happy and to not offend