Mark wrotePerhaps to some degree, but the opposite of political correctness - behaviors like rudeness, insensitivity, disrespect, bullying, etc. are even more repugnant and unacceptable in civilized society.
You see, no civilisation has ever needed something as demented and damaging as "political correctness".
[B]Political[/B] correctness is not the cure nor is it the opposite of degenerate behaviour like rudness, insensitivity, disrespect, bullying etc.
This crap was invented in 80-90.
"... The phrase was widely used in the debate about Allan Bloom's 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind, and gained further currency in response to Roger Kimball's Tenured Radicals (1990) and conservative author Dinesh D'Souza's 1991 book Illiberal Education, in which he condemned what he sa[B]w as liberal efforts to advance self-victimization and multiculturalism through language, affirmative action, and changes to the content of school and university curricula"[/B]
Dinesh D'Souza got it right.
Look around. Political correctness is destroying not only USA, but UK, AU, and most of the EU. It's almost like a contagious mental decease that wipes out victims common sense and ability to understand cause and effect.
