Recent letters (i.e., “PC on ‘GN,” Voice, Aug. 1) have made reference to the term “politically correct.”
This is the pet phrase today, uttered with a sneer. People who deplore bigot-driven comments are derided as being too sensitive, as being too (sneer) PC.
Turning a legitimate complaint around by personally attacking the one making the complaint is an old tactic. If you tell someone they have just made a racist, sexist or homophobic remark, chances are the response will be that you should be ashamed for being politically correct.
I long for the day when being politically correct is no longer on the outs. Not a time when every imagined slight becomes a political cause or a time when language has been sanitized beyond common sense but the day when those who deplore words that demonize and degrade aren’t intimidated by the anti-PC crowd. A day when people are truly concerned about preserving the dignity of those whose race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, etc., differs from their own.
