In most things I am
liberal. However,
PC is
stupid. It was put forth by
liberal groups, but it restricts
free speech. That is the most important
right there is IMHO. Restricting that in the name of being
polite should be entirely
internal. Granted, one should weight the external
social cost of making statements that disagree with the general feeling of any
group, but ideas should not have to be structured using only
certain words. As far as I'm concerned,
white guys are
white,
black guys are
black, not
Caucasian and
African-American. Citing it is a
cliche but in
1984, the
government tried to force everyone to use the same
words. This
limits thought, and
ideas.
I think its obvious that the press is liberal, but that's for another time. I think there are conservatives in Congress, but again, another time I may talk about that.
Restriction of speech and thought by anything, whether government, corporation, social trend, or taboo, is stupid. Therefore, PC is stupid.
Response to knifegirl
So you decided to use certain words because you didn't want to hurt someone, and thats a moral thing IMO. Yet, it was not forced on you. Notice what I said about social costs above.
And Yes I have been told not to call blacks black. Many times. I was given detention because I wouldn't call someone I'd been friends with for almost 5 years and who didn't care either way (I directly asked him) African-American instead of black. I threatened to go to private school, and they didn't want that because I am by public school's standards bright so it was let go. But I've had random people tell me the same thing, but none have ever been black. I don't consider calling someone black a slur.
Political correctness makes slurs bad not because they hurt people but because it goes against the accepted way of speaking. Again, thats why its stupid.