08-30-2013, 05:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-30-2013, 05:59 AM by stratman_13.)
Shit, honestly, I'd be proud to tell that story.
It has, and it continues to, hinder moving past it.
Political correctness has its time and place, but honestly, in my opinion, it reinforces barriers more than it breaks them down.
Because basically you're still recognizing it as something offensive, wrong, etc. The more you build it up to be a monster, well.. eventually it'll become one. The sooner that we learn to actually not take everything so seriously, the sooner we can move past a lot of the issues that plague things like sexism and racism.
Laugh it off, people. Just because it meant something to an ignorant group of people years ago doesn't mean that you actually have to continue to hold yourself to keeping it that meaning.
I'm not going to lie though, I had that thought out a lot better in my head, but I find it really difficult to transfer my thoughts from my head to words, so that point probably didn't come across effectively at all.
(08-30-2013, 05:54 AM)Grungie Wrote: Personally I feel that all this is what keeps racism and sexism alive. I'm probably naive to think this, but I feel that making light of some of this stuff breaks barriers down. The whole "hey you can't say that!!!" makes it continue and people will do it on purpose, but if nobody is taking the subject seriously, eventually people will stop caring about it.
It has, and it continues to, hinder moving past it.
Political correctness has its time and place, but honestly, in my opinion, it reinforces barriers more than it breaks them down.
Because basically you're still recognizing it as something offensive, wrong, etc. The more you build it up to be a monster, well.. eventually it'll become one. The sooner that we learn to actually not take everything so seriously, the sooner we can move past a lot of the issues that plague things like sexism and racism.
Laugh it off, people. Just because it meant something to an ignorant group of people years ago doesn't mean that you actually have to continue to hold yourself to keeping it that meaning.
I'm not going to lie though, I had that thought out a lot better in my head, but I find it really difficult to transfer my thoughts from my head to words, so that point probably didn't come across effectively at all.
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