Political correctness is the alteration of one's choice of words in order to avoid either offending a group of people or reinforcing a stereotype considered to be disadvantageous to the group.
More specifically, groups which (or whose putative "leaders" or other activists) claim some status as systemically oppressed or discriminated against will periodically attempt to change the terms by which they are referred to and demand that society as a whole change its usage of words as well.
All Americans or should I not say White America has no claim of disadvantageous status, are truly the only group restricted in expressing our concerns and ideas.
Every other group has the right under political correctness to restrict our ideas.
I thought America was the gathering of the best ideas! Political correctness can even affect terminology that's viewed by secularists as too "pro-religion" or an alleged "violation of the separation of church and state" in the United States.
The best example of this is the active promotion of the use of C.
E.
and B.
C.
E.
as the abbreviations used after dates (instead of the commonly and traditionally used A.
D.
and B.
C.
).
Conservative scholar Robert Bork has charged that the educational system is a battleground where the future of America is being undermined and ill-served.
He has counseled against the troubles which will ensue as a result of anti-religious policies in the schools, permissive attitudes toward homosexuality and abortion, as well as welfare policies that have destroyed families since L.
B.
Johnson's War on Poverty.
In her book "The Language Police", Diane Ravitch documents just how easy it is to get a word, phrase or idea banned from modern textbooks and references.
Ravitch asserts that textbook producers are beholden to small non-elected liberal educational boards in a few key states such as New York or California and that few citizens know anything about these boards or who holds the seats of power on these boards.
It's not difficult for an interest group to mobilize a campaign to bombard the educational board.
Meanwhile, the public is not even aware that their words or values are under attack from this corrupt system, while many elected Conservatives have rallied against this policy.
My last example of Political Correctness can be found when our Happy Christmas becomes Happy Holidays, nativity scenes are no longer displayed in some childcare centers, and carols are "de-Christmased", just in case non-Christians are offended.
This year is no exception, with reports some UK bosses have axed tiny pigs from children's toy farm sets - in case Muslim and Jewish parents find it offensive.
Political Correctness needs to be trashed.
Other than limiting speech, new ideas, and opposition to Leftist Political ideas it serves no purpose.