Edited: 02-18-2018; Grammatically
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What does being politically correct actually mean and why are people against the idea, concept, and application?
President Trump said during his campaign political correctness was, "a big problem", something he nor the entire country, "have time for".
Milo Yiannopoulos, a supporter of Donald Trump who has fallen out of favor since making controversial comments regarding sexual consent, now says he is waging a war against political correctness with his new venture, "Milo Inc.".
I don't understand what this fascination with political correctness is about. The first thing to enter my mind is if you're not concerned about being politically correct, then does this mean you're fighting for "Political Incorrectness"?
In a world seemingly divided into two extremes, isn't this the only other option? People want to fight for the right to always be incorrect and/or wrong?
I guess the first thing to do is look up what political correctness is defined as by current societal measures. Here is the current Wikipedia.org post on political correctness;
The term political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated to PC or P.C.) in modern usage, is used to describe some language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society. In mainstream political discourse and media, the term is generally used as a pejorative, implying that these policies are excessive.
The term had only scattered usage before the early 1990s, usually as an ironic self-description, but entered more mainstream usage in the United States when it was the subject of a series of articles in The New York Times. 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 saw as liberal efforts to advance self-victimization, multiculturalism through language, affirmative action, and changes to the content of school and university curricula.
Commentators on the left have said that conservatives pushed the term in order to divert attention from more substantive matters of discrimination and as part of a broader culture war against liberalism. They also argue that conservatives have their own forms of political correctness, which are generally ignored by conservative commenters. - Wikipedia.org
Another term frequently used in today's politics ultimately described as starting off as a leftist ideology versus the right's anti-movement.
I grow tired of these easily defined partisanship battles. I live for the day people start to believe the solutions to many problems are offered by neither column A or B alone.
Political Correctness is merely an idea and a concept to curb one's language to not lose the point of any message by making it personal or offensive in any matter.
It isn't because of an overnight growth of hatred or discrimination towards one group of people or another. Most people with power and a large platform to have their voice heard should be fully aware of historical events as proof of those things already existing.
The purpose and intent of political correctness have been examined.
The question remains, why wage a war against political correctness, in hopes to rid the world of it?
When I last saw Milo Yiannopoulos, he was being interviewed on "Real Time with Bill Maher". They used Mr. Yiannopoulos's recent appearance at UC Berkeley, which was disrupted by rioters as evidence of the end-game effects of political correctness in combination with "The Regressive Left's" agenda.
For clarity's sake, a now exposed caricature of the Alt-Right and a comedian/political pundit, trying to find common ground on the use of language which allegedly led people to riot.
They wanted to dispell the idea of language causing any harm through the archival of stand-up routines and comments made by Joan Rivers, a woman who trailblazed comedy and made her living based on the very idea of being rude, crude, and socially unacceptable.
I would have invited Joan Rivers to have Dinner, had said Dinner Party been devoid of any major politician not formally made aware of her presence.
You just can't take comedians anywhere in public, unless you're ready to clean up after them. I'm not talking about washing dishes either.
Altogether, there is political correctness and the reason for it to not only exist but, be something to aspire to if you're interested in being a part of the conversation.
You can't see it this way? You still want the Alt-Right, Neo-Cons, and Republicans to fight alongside with you to eliminate it?
Okay, fine.
The only way to learn how to break the rules of language is to seek the help from others who do it at a world-class level. They include Super-Ultra-Liberals, "Liberal's Only" University English Professors, Writers, and Stand-Up Comedians.
Pretty much every group, "The Right" has proven to have adverse reactions to with their use of modern-day English.
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