Saying the wrong thing in America today may result in being penalized, fired, or even taken to court. Political correctness is the avoidance of forms of expression that insult groups of people. Today in America, people are expected to maintain political correctness in their dialogue and life. America would be better off without the use of political correctness because it has negative effects on today’s society. Political correctness has a negative outcome on the white middle class American because the collective minorities are now the majority. Because the idea of being a politically correct country has become so widespread, it is noticeable now that the once minor ethnic groups and people of racial or religious backgrounds control the American …show more content…
When there are frequent changes in the politically correct terms, it becomes difficult keep up with the most respectful way of saying or describing a group of people. Writers have to spend a considerable amount of time researching politically correct terms, and this is a problem that often affects the writers and journalists of today. Journalists often spend much of their time focusing on being inclusive by researching new words and correct concepts “like Latinx, a term which removes the gender binary from the Latino/Latina construct” (McGrit n. pag.). Although it is important to be respectful, the large amount of time used to insure a sensitive and politically correct article or magazine could be used alternatively to research the topic of an article or magazine more in depth. Too much of a writer or journalist’s time is spent on attempting to please a wider crowd. Although it is important to be respectful, the large amount of time used to insure a sensitive and politically correct article or magazine could be used alternatively to research the topic of an article or magazine more in depth. Too much of a writer or journalist’s time is spent on attempting to please a wider …show more content…
In addition outside of school, students are not able to express themselves freely and have to restrain themselves when speaking to another person. Although it's not morally just to humiliate or degrade someone, individuals should be allowed to use the words they desire, and those words should be tolerated because a person has the right to express his or her feelings. With the widespread political correctness of today, the progress and reforms made in education are dwindling and preventing the expression of individuality: “Political correctness [...] [enforces] ideological conformity and [turns] classes into forums for indoctrination rather than venues for intellectual debate and exploration” (Davidson n. pag.). When people accept conformity, they are agreeing to limit the expression of their own ideas and views. With lack of new ideas and views, it would not be a surprise if America transformed into a tyrannical society. Again, the growth of political correctness will negatively affect America whether it's in or outside of
Some people love controversy; some despise it. Regardless of how one views a controversial topic, odds are he is fascinated by it and has his own thoughts on the matter. Journalist Leonard Pitts, Jr., who authors editorial articles for the Miami Herald, writes extremely opinionated pieces on current controversial topics targeting those who are not minorities. He writes with the goal of bringing to light issues that people would rather not discuss. Pitts’ style can be seen through pieces such as “Don’t Lower the Bar on Education Standards;” “Torture Might Work, but That’s Not the Issue;” and “If the Gunman is White, We’re OK With Mass Murder.
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Since this country was founded, we have had a set of unalienable rights that our constitution guarantees us to as Americans. One of the most important rights that is mentioned in our constitution is the right to free speech. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the
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Michiko Kakutani's essay “The Word Police” is a refreshing look at a literary world policed by the Politically Correct (P.C.). She pokes fun at the efforts of P.C. policepersons such as Rosalie Maggio, author of The Bias-Free Word Finder, a Dictionary of Nondiscriminatory Language . But in mocking authors like Maggio, Kakutani emphasizes that efforts of the P.C. police are often exaggerated to the point of silliness and can even become a linguistic distraction from the real issues. In fact, such filtering or censorship of words can lead to larger problems within the English language: “getting upset by phrases like ‘bullish on America' or ‘the City of Brotherly Love' tends to distract attention from the real problems of prejudice and injustice that exist in society at large” (686). According to Kakutani, over-exaggerated political correctness just serves in complicating our words and diluting the messages. But really, the problem in P.C. advice on word-choice is the exaggeration of inclusive ness. Kakutani addresses the P.C. police's righteous motive: “a vision of a more just, inclusive society in which racism, sexism, and prejudice of all sorts have been erased” (684). But where does one draw the line between writing inclusively and walking on eggshells? What is politically correct? Must writers assume the worst of their audiences when debating whether to mutate the spelling of “women” to “womyn” in order to avoid sexist language? The truth is, writing purely inclusively is an arduous task; it requires consistent and careful consideration of many exterior elements such as audience, literary content, and societal context. An examination of these elements reveals just how difficult ...
38 Wilson, Clint and Felix Gutierrez. Race, Multiculturalism, and the Media: From Mass to Class Communication. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1995: 44.
Using the ability to see the whole world, groups of people who do not assimilate properly become labeled and forced into a stereotypical boxes produced by the dominating voice. Social norms are becoming more widely known and accepted, allowing concepts to spread further and faster. The concept of beauty nowadays is tall, fit with the right curves, a pretty face, and other body appearances. Those who do not fit into the concept are outcasted, talked about within the community like the Tomkeys. Or how by simply posting an honest comment about a certain topic leads to the poster being heavily attacked by opposing people. Every word is taken to the extreme in many cases, to where the original message is lost. The increasing social ideals are generating new judgments that are forged by a majority thought, not an original
The “Politically Correct” movement’s purpose is to bring historically condescending terms, offensive music and art, and controversial educational content to an end and replace them with more positive and less-offending references. Offensive and demoralizing efforts are wrong, but the censorship and deletion of words and phrases that do not contain the intention to demoralize are taking political correctness too far. Politically correct (or “PC”) antics have created a social decline that is growing worse with each generation, specifically regarding areas of art, education, language, and our right to freedom of speech; the degradation they have brought to the American psyche has even led to name-changing.
America has proven to be a very diverse and mixed culture. Our society is compiled with various ethnicities, religions, moral standards, and so much more. With all that combined there is bound to be racial clashing, religion bashing, and abstention. The movie “Crash” depicts how cultural identity affects Americans everyday by stereotyping, nonverbal communication, and avoidance.
There are many types of discrimination in the America such as racial, religious, age, disability, and sexual. As college students, discrimination will play a major role in minorities lives as they look for employment or whom they are employed with. Discrimination and the opportunities for promotion are still common even though companies create a safe place to prevent racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is one of the world’s major issues today. Many are not aware on how much it still exists everywhere. A person cannot be born racist and discriminative but only learn to become one as they grow from child to an adult.
Journalist of Latino decent stated that they feel they have faced discrimination based on their race in their work environment, from sources they have tried to interviewed, and even from non-Latino public relations professionals that made them feel less valued (Flores & Subervi, 2014). It is concerning the fact that even those Latinos who do work in the media suffered from the negative connotations and stereotype that are placed towards the Latino community by other members of the media. There are ways this problem can be fixed, but sometimes what for some might seem like solutions, it makes the problem
Intolerance in American Society Intolerance of other people's culture, religion, ethnic background and background. Skin colour was a major issue in the 1920's America. This was, of course, a snare. course the era of the economic boom that helped to make America rich. and a prosperous country in which to live.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, however what is considered beautiful by some is not considered as beauty when discussing diversity within the media. Society is based on criticism of judging one’s characters body, shape and or race/ethnics background. In the media the society only sees one type that is only focused on perfection to the mind; however within the United States, it is very typical in that the media lacks ethnic representation, cultural identity and gender inequalities. There are no ethnic representation when it comes to the media world and that the media has been trained to believe that the ethnic groups are not valuable. African Americans and Hispanics writers are the minority group when it comes to a social group. According to journalist Prince and Television critic Deggans “CNN , let go one of its most high-profile anchor of color, Soledad O’Brien, replaced her with a white man, Chris Cuomo. Wolf Blitzer gave up one of his hours to another white man, Tapper. Though Zucker met with both National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalist to try and address their concerns, there has been no overt sign from CNN that it is bringing on any more anchors of color, ”(Mirkinson p.1).
Censorship is not a recent development. It wasn’t imposed properly or there weren’t strict regulations before. In the article “Hate Radio” by Patricia J. Williams, the writer says that radio was a powerful source of media. It had influenced a lot of people. The power of media can change the course of history. The host on the radio such as Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern were also influencing a lot of people. The theme was not merely the specific intolerance on hot topics as race and gender, but a much more general contempt for the world, a verbal stoning of anything different. Most of the audience on this radio shows were white and male. Most of the callers have spent their lives walling themselves off from any real experience with blacks, feminists, lesbians or gays. Rush Limbaugh tell his audience “what you believe inside, you can talk about it in the marketplace.” Unfortunately what’s inside is then mistaken for what’s outside, treated empirical and political reality. Most of the talks on the radio were being racist against the blacks. This had influenced so much that a statistics showed that 53 percent of people in America agree that blacks and Latinos are less intelligent than whites, and a majority believed that blacks are lazy, violent, welfare-dependent and unpatriotic. Hence this stereotype among the people was due to the lack of censorship.(Williams,502)
“Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own (Nobles).” People fail to see responsible journalism as a crisis because it is so convenient to have news media make up your mind for you. The foundation of our personal philosophies stems from irresponsible journalism through the major news sources we consume, the exposure to less responsible entertainment, and the biased reporting enforcing negative stereotypes.