Political Correctness in Communication

Political correction as become the bane of communication in the modern age. The idea that people have to walk on eggshells when they speak is just becoming embarrassing and immature. This harkens back to a CNN report I saw last year, when a reporter was talking about a hit-and-run hate crime committed by a guy, and he mentioned the proof of what made it a racially motivated crime, by repeating what the driver wrote in a text message after. The problem? The text message he read, verbatim, written by a punk who just ran over a black guy for racially motivated reasons, mind you, said “I just ran over a fucking nigger.” He was reporting the news, in the context of the story, but this guy got absolutely ripped apart for nothing more than telling the truth and exposing what really happened and not sugar-coating it for the whiners who like to pretend hate doesn’t exist.

This phony outrage over things that other people say has turned people into a bunch of eggshell-walking cowards. People LOVE to be “outraged” by something, no matter how harmless and stupid it is; they are just obsessed with being a “part of something” because they themselves don’t have a well-thought opinion on something. They parrot biased opinions made by other people because they are completely incapable of determining the context of something without having to take a specific “side” of an argument. Removed from context, they find everything offensive, yet they conveniently find context in certain positions. Look at the state of our entertainment and music these days; it’s absolutely atrocious and immature. We have grown men, rappers, actors, 40-year-olds, who act like 15 year old street punks, and nobody ever gets “outraged” over them. They don’t try to innovate anymore, and simply try to pander, preach-to-the-choir, any cliché trope they can. People are so used to settling for mediocrity and banality, that they’ve just started to expect and actually enjoy complete garbage. 

It’s insane to think about, because the people who excuse those types of actions and behavior turn around and condemn others just for SAYING something, for communicating what they think, not even physically doing something. These people are the ones who are more prejudiced than anybody; they are a part of this patriarchal system who make excuses for people who do and say horrible things when they’re completely in context too. These excuses range from “oh they’re poor an oppressed” to “oh well they’re a part of [name minority group] so they can say whatever they want about [majority group] or [own minority group]”, when what they’re truly saying is “oh we just EXPECT that behavior from ‘them’.” They want to be in this “patriarch” position over people, so that they can control them and feel more elite. That’s far worse than actually expressing your feelings and distaste about these subjects, no matter how controversial your thoughts might be to others, things like cultural degradation. However, expressing those real, unfiltered thoughts is what gets you in trouble.

Instead, they participate in this institutional prejudice and racism, yet are considered by the public-at-large to be “progressive” and “forward-thinking” despite being the most narrow-minded people in the world. Just because they’re passively bigoted, they’re accepted, and they basically teach people that it’s ok to act like complete trash, as long as that’s “expected” from your demographic group. They essentially punish those who strive to be their best and to be as honest as possible, and are turning people into walking gimmicks, subcultures to be divided and conquered via this media-brainwashing. People try to blame the government for losing our freedom of speech, but it’s the people