Who Needs Political Correctness Anyway?

*note Paper i turned in which failed me :) gtg bye
Political correctness explores and attempts to test people’s wits and steal their freedoms by naming it a worthy justifiable cause. In an age of reason and logic, people should know better than to accept something as absurd as political correctness. “Political Correctness comprises a host of academic reforms and attitudes that according to their critics are destroying higher education and threatening national survival” (Friedman 1). Thus, political correctness means to infringe upon my freedom of speech with exaggerating the truth and trying to change my speech patterns. The constitution granted freedom of speech to Americans and it should stay that way.
First defining control is a vital step in understanding why fighting political correctness is so important. Webster’s dictionary defines control- to exercise authoritative or dominating influence over; direct. Political correctness in a sense means to control by using terms like “’diversity’ and ‘tolerance’ to demonize anyone who opposes it” (Snyder 1). Psychological theory dictates that humans are animals and thus training them like animals is not very difficult. (2) Thus, political correctness means to steal our freedoms. We are being brought up to believe certain ideas and views, which inadvertently direct us to something else, which is exactly what these advocates want. Once there they can manipulate anybody to do, what they feel is necessary in order for society to succeed. However, what is the price of “society succeeding” American’s freedoms? Freedom is priceless and should not be compromised. Here is an example of this manipulation; “it attempts to develop a nationalized workforce (called “school to work” or “school to career”) that seeks to control all people entering the workforce, including those wanting to become entrepreneurs, nonprofit workers and religious professionals” (Snyder 2). A quick recap; first they bring us up to believe that we are doing the right thing but in reality they are stealing our freedom to choose, by making it incorrect to go against society. Americans will be frowned upon if they choose a life style different from the norm. Marc Beley defines political correctness as an inane but dangerous thought and speech code that threatens the free speech and intellectual curiosity. If people sat, down and thought this through with consistency they would realize that political correctness is useless and a sneaky trick to steal our freedoms. Many people fight this political correctness with a chaotic passion and uncanny sense of humor. Two defenders of our freedom have fought ferociously against political correctness.
Camille Paglia and George Carlin each have there own way of fighting political correctness. Camille Paglia is a known author who has written books such as Vamps and Tramps, and Sex Art and the American Culture. George Carlin is a comedian who uses a lot of sarcasm and anger to get his point across. Camille believes that Political correctness “with its fascist speech codes and puritanical sexual regulations, is a travesty of sixties progressive values”. Camille attempts to demonstrate the useless of political correctness by proving many points. Here are some examples of these “feminist confidence that the whole human race can be ‘reeducated’ to totally eliminate the possibility of rape is pure folly… Wave after wave of boys hit puberty every year. Do feminist, with their multicultural pretensions, really envision a massive export of white bourgeois good manners all around the world? Speak of imperialism!” Her view on of political correctness is obviously not a good one. However, she really draws a clear picture of why it is so useless and essentially irritating for those who think political correctness through. George Carlin on the other hand uses extreme sarcasm to get his point across. He like Camille attempts to prove the useless of political correctness. In the following example we notice his use of language to not only make political correctness humorous but laugh at it.
“The fireman put a ladder up against the tree, climbed it, and rescued the cat. Might look like this: The firefighter (who happened to be male, but could just as easily have been female) abridged the rights of the cat to determine for itself where it wanted to walk, climb, or rest, and inflicted his own value judgments in determining that it needed to be ‘rescued’ from its chose perch… he kidnapped and unjustly restrained the innocent animal with the intention of returning it to the person who claimed to ‘own’ the naturally free animal, but it immediately fled his grasp, having withstood more insult and injury that it could bear”
Carlin use and manipulation of the English language is quite easily seen here. His intention was to take a quite simple situation into a complicated uses of words. In which the readers notice straightforward that it’s useless is quite evident.
Establishing that political correctness is wrong is easy, now what should be done to fight it. First we must acknowledge that the only way to fight it is through teaching children while they are young individuality and rational thought. Snyder came up with many simple things that could be done in order to teach to children everywhere who to become rational thinkers. All that has to be done is to follow these simple methods of teaching. “Teach intellectual and moral absolutes about truth, culture, philosophy, and morality instead of relativistic ideas. Help students use these intellectual and moral absolutes to give meaning and purpose to their lives. Teach accurate study of Philosophy of Science so students can know the limits of science and the need for the basic laws of logic. Give students proper ethics training, with specific dos and don’ts, such as ‘Human life always takes precedence over animal or plant life.’ Stress competition and personal excellence, but don’t neglect the importance of ‘teamwork’ in situations or endeavors that truly call for some kind of cooperation and collaboration, such as playing on a team sport” (Snyder 4).
Political correctness means to control and in doing that stealing our freedoms. Political correctness attempts to fix the mistakes of society, but in trying to fix them brings about a whole new set. Stealing individualism and freedoms, cannot and will not be the answer to there problem. Americans fought hard enough for these freedoms, and nobody will take them from Americas.