Should being political correctness be outlawed?
542439
Political correctness is unjust and nonsense where common sense barley makes it. It increases prejudice and discrimination by picking on and highlighting issues that before was not there but only in the cranky minds of the political correctness brigade. It barmy liberal laws has benefited hard and persistant criminals as themselves real victims and treated so softly that the police are now powerless to stop criminals re-offending which for the real victims of these criminal brutes they are the last consideration only to be insulted by court decisions of leniency to their wrongdoers.\nPolitical correctness is has become a cancer to decent common sense and blights our society and it is high time it was thrown into the history books of legalised madness that should never be allowed to rear it's ugly head again.
254312
Sure, it could be argued that censoring it lends it an appearance of legitimacy, but I think any risks of people taking it more seriously because it is recognized and censored do not outweigh the necessity of taking into account the pain and offense that some people might feel at the prospect of these ideas.  Holocaust denial, for example, is a spit in the face - to put it mildly - to millions of Jews and other peoples who suffered at the hands of the Nazis.  Denying them the right to their history is unfair, and only expounds a problem that has already been exacerbated.\n\nNazism, on the other hand, is arguably a valid concern.  Though I doubt facism would ever rise to the same level it peaked at in the thirties and forties, it is still a legitimate political ideology, and it goes by many names, one of which is Nazism or Neo-Nazism.  To allow people to run rampant with such ideas is another affront at the history of atrocities committed in the name of such facism, and ought to be prevented.\n\nThe issue of freedom of expression - which does not exist in Germany to the extent that it does here in the US - should not be misused so as to condone such behaviours and ideas.  I think the US is even too lax in this department, allowing such groups as the KKK to voice their sentiments.  There is a limit to where freedom of expression impedes upon another person's ability to experience civil freedom, and that's unallowable.  This could shoot off into a related debate, concerning where to draw the line and why, but point being, I do think it ought to be censored.  Ideas such as these should not be condoned by "civilized" humanity.
194367
Freedom of Speech is what I believe you are referring to.  Political Correctness was invented by universities that obviously have a lot of time on their hands.  Freedom of Speech is written into the Constitution of the United States and is and should be looked at with more forethought than what a bunch of busy bodies in and around a college campus thought was/is important.
177850
Appearing politically correct to others.
799821
All race-hate, political correctness, anti-blasphemy and similar regressive and primitive  laws should be abolished or ignored:  "I care not for what they say, but I will lay down my life in defence of their right to say it" (Dickens 'A tale of two cities') People must be free to say what they think: no one can be made to listen to or agree with them and I will not be told by a bunch of politicians, religious crackpots, 'do gooders' or any other self- interest group or cardboard 'little Hitler' what I should think!\nCensorship of any description is nothing more than an attempt by one group of biggots to forcibly foist their jaundiced views on the rest of us. Remember 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' when the publishers were hauled before the courts because 'they' claimed that it would 'deprave and corrupt' - but failed to produce a single example of one such?  But what about those who had read it in order to object to it's content - surely they must have been 'depraved and corrupted' themselves in order to recognise the symptons - isn't there a parallel here somewhere?
641971
I think it's a crock...Political Correctness run amuck.
481163
I think political correctness is what is bringing our country down today. Everyone is so afraid of hurting everyone's feelings, no one can really say what they feel anymore.\n\nWhen I was growing up, there was much more cooperation in the nation. You could actually *gasp!* disagree with someone, and it was okay. You felt one way, and your neighbor felt another way. When the debate was over, you rolled up your sleeves and went to work side-by-side to get the work done.\n\nToday, if you disagree with someone, you are a traitor or ignorant or a moron. Just look at some of the things people are saying about me on this website solely because I am a conservative Republican.\n\nThere is no Constitutional guarantee against being offended. If you don't like what someone is saying, so what? Appreciate the difference of opinion - discourse is what made this country great.\n\nPeople need to grow up and stop wearing their emotions on their sleeve.
807566
People who believe this is freedom of speech have disregarded the families right to privacy, especially to cereminiously honor there loved ones that have died.  If racial remarks were said outside of a minority's funeral or hateful remarks to homosexuals funeral, it wouldn't be tolerated.  It shouldn't be tolerated for a soldier's funeral either.
998279
It's political correctness run-a-muck. Just ignore the knee jerk brainwashed pinheads.
830245
Not really, what's sad (and wrong) in this country is that a public figure can not say what the rest of us are (supposedly) free to say, political correctness is like a pendulum that has swung too far. We have freedom of speech, yet if someone says anything that will offend anyone else, there's a big stink. Political campaign commercials are free to bash and exaggerate negatively about the opponents yet Kerry can't say what a large percentage of us really think? Hell no, he shouldn't apologize.
389421
There is a time for both. If you constantly use political correctness, then you are a coward but if you never use it you are mean.
541934
It is not destroying the nation, but attacking it's First Amendment right to free speech.  Our politicians who think the general public is so stupid adopted this so they can be two faced and get everybody to vote for them, because no one can be offended. I, for one, hate political correctness.  You can put a fancy dress on a pig and give it a fancy name, but when it gets to the trough it's still a pig.
644347
I think it's great when used properly, everyone should be able to have his or her own voice on everything.  Theirs nothing wrong with freedom of speach.\n\nBut it does piss me off when some people try to label other things, such as harassment, as freedom of speech.
604956
I am VERY sick of being politically correct. Everyone seems so sensitive, women, blacks, Mexicans, gays, everyone. Funny the only people we never have to be sensitive to is White Christian Men, because they can be ripped on all the time. Funny how that works.
223134
I support the right to publish the toons.  But with free speech you need to have respect and restraint.  You should publish something just because you can.  So if the material is disrespectful, or offensive, you need to be sure that's what you want to do...in this case it feels like they just published them to see if they could get a rise out of people. That's wrong.
218348
No. Having a free society requires us to occasionally put up with the fact that other people who have repugnant opinions are just as entitled to speak their mind as we are. What we don't have to do is take the repugnance itself lying down. It's fine to challenege someone's "stupid racist remarks" whenever they're made, whether "on TV" or elsewhere, and we/you should whenever we see it. Free speech is not the problem, letting racists go unchallenged is.
198397
With this ever changin and growing world our freedoms are being greatly compromised for the good of the many. Yes this is free speach and I believe people should have the right to do so, if I wanted to insult someone I believe I have the right to do so, even if it is very distasteful. \nIt should be my choice to decide what I say and how I say it, and people should be sensible enough to respect each others beliefs, but it is the few that are causing a problem as usual.