Has political correctness gone too far?

Yep..yep....

Way way too politically correct.

 

If you accidentally offend someone you should apolagize. They didn't mean to be racist, but context made it so. It seems silly for people to assume a company would publicly say something as offensive as that, but to let it pass unchallanged would be worse.

 

All of this.

 

I notice that major political leaders (except the anti-gay) will not comment or give their opinion on homosexuality in fear of losing voters and popularity. This really bothers me, I wish my country was ran by more honest people

 

So if Hershey's, Cadbury or Dove said "Where's the chocolate?" am I supposed to care?

 

Since I've no idea what you're talking about....yes something is too far in this thread 0_0.


But seriously: Don't know really. My country isn't very "politically correct" but personally I don't support "political correctness", I support ONLY freedom of speech. The fact that people cannot say certain words is ridiculous, it is the epitome of censorship.

 

Yes. I agree with you. We're supposed to be getting more tolerant, yet people will jump on anyone who makes the slightest gaffe, has any preconceived notions, and relies on their personal experiences accumulated over the years to sort of scan situations.

I don't have any friends like this. Even friends who grew up in big cities and now live in either gayborhoods or LGBT meccas, such as resort type towns, say some of the sauciest things but I know that, deep down, they are just being clowns because their actions are so different from these things they may periodically say.

 

That comment from Clorox wasn't meant to be racist. Like, at all.

This isn't even about being PC. It's about people not knowing how to comprehend what they read.

Euphemisms, weasel words, and circumlocutions are the wave of the future. Since it's become standard to dance around saying what you want to, I'm not exactly surprised people take offense at absolutely everything these days.

 

It was a joke, I don't like it when people take things to seriously. It's obviously not meant to be taken seriously so why are people so offended? I don't take offense to gay jokes. I do not care if a comedian makes a joke about some gay stereotype because it doesn't mean anything. Just pull the stick out of your ass.

 

This. No matter how funny and inoffensive you were intending to be, there are only so many times I'm going to believe it was truly not meant to offend. If someone is offended by what you say and you keep going because you don't want to bow down to the horrible PC police, then you know what you're doing. In that, you're not raging against the machine, you're just being the dick who knowingly offends people with meaningless drivel and then acts as if it were some great and repressed truth.

Have the gall to be open about your beliefs. Don't hide behind the cowardly faux-defence of saying everyone else is just too sensitive.

 

Political correctness is going crazy. People say things that they meant as an innocent joke and gets attacked by the PC police. It's like you can't say anything anymore.

 

This sums it up nicely.

I also agree that the use of the term in order to dismiss serious discussion is the bigger problem.

 

More people should. I totally agree.

Look at how many times people here poke fun at LGBT stereotypes or talk about their own fit with these stereotypes in threads and it's handled maturely and quite well. I like self-deprecating humor as long as it's not too self-deprecating.

 

Yes it has gone too far, in politics there are so many things that no one says are out of bounds but many treat avoiding them like the law of the land. Fortunately I believe in equality, so if I've not offended you yet, don't worry I will get round to you.

 

lol "has being sensitive to people's feelings gone too far??!?!" :icon_roll

 

Dear people who like to throw out PC as an insult nonstop:

Has it ever occurred to you that maybe, just maybe, sometimes it isn't that the other person is being too sensitive and that it's you who's being too insensitive and PiC?

This, especially the bold.

What I particularly find amusing about that is that, not too long ago even, a certain poster did exactly what you said there in a different thread; people asked for clarification of their point and all we got was 'PC people tire me...'(paraphrasing that).

Apparently it has.

This.

If you want to be a frickin' asswipe, own up to it instead of hiding behind the 'you're just too sensitive' crap. This goes back to what I said in the opening of this post.

 

Yes. If you're offended, sorry. I'm only responsible for what I say, not what you hear. So put on your big kid pants and handle it.

 

People are to damn sensitive these days...If I joke about the Bible, or "God" at work, everyone starts busting my balls...