The reason we have Political Correctness is because people do NOT want to take the time to try and understand anything anyone ever says.

For example, if a cop is trying to give advice on how to avoid getting raped and he says, "One thing might be to not dress like a slut." Then people take this to mean that he advocates sluts getting raped because they don't take the time to try and understand that maybe what he's trying to say is that if you dress like a prude, your chances of getting raped are reduced significantly.

Could the cop have phrased it better? Absolutely. Should he have said nothing in order to be politically correct? Absolutely NOT because staying quiet does not convey the necessary information that could help keep someone from getting raped.

The example above was contrived in order to depict the point that political correctness is the lazy way out of a situation. The reason people take the lazy way out is because it is really draining to deal with stupid people that insist on being offended by everything anyone ever says.

It's retarded to think that in a modern society that believes in logic and free speech, we can just censor ourselves so that we don't offend anyone. Before we come up with a codename, we have to make sure that it doesn't offend anyone (including the native americans).

Don't call them midgets. That's just the proper term that was created in order to name a certain condition... nope, fuck language and that bullshit... just call them LITTLE people. And don't call them black, that's just the term we use because their skin is pretty much black (i mean, not definite black, but white isn't accurate either yet white people don't give a shit because they, in general, know that it doesn't matter)... nope, call them African American (even though by definition an African American would be someone who was born in Africa and moved to America to become a citizen... right, because all black people are like that).

Political correctness is censorship and a blatant attack on intellect. It's Double-think and Newspeak.

Obviously there is some area where you need political correctness, such as horrible things in the past like the holocaust, but in today's world it has gone too far, you can hardly speak in a public forum about politics or other such people centered areas without scouring what you wish to say for everyone who might be insulted by the way you phrase something. For example, a tea party activist was quoted as saying that "the only reason Obama was elected was due to throngs of uneducated people who were illiterate" and has since been consistently called a racist. Did his quote mention anything about race? No, people just see it that way and label him a bigot, making it easier to ignore anything he or anyone else arguing on his side based on the fact that they are racist