Political correctness is a filter that is used to extreme in our society. It is a societal excuse for an inability to accept the truth of thought, attitude, beliefs, and actions. It used to be a devise used by con artists to gain their results by saying what the mark wanted to hear. Greatly used by politicians to make constituents vote for whatever the politician wanted them to hear in order to gain votes. Our society used to revere honesty and truth and now you have no idea what someone else is really thinking or what they believe in. We have become so adept at masking ourselves for fear of verbal and physical reprisal that reality is skewed.
Our political system has been infected with this insidious practice, but we as a people have encouraged lying or at least the act of bending the truth in every part of our society. It’s no wonder that we are angry at our politicians, we can’t believe anything they say. Lying is condoned every time our children cheat on tests because everyone else does it and they learn that it’s ok from peers, teachers and parents. We have taken truth into the slums with our “everything has to be politically correct” ideology. As long as we adhere to the policy that honesty is less important than what everyone else will think our nation and our society will be weakened.
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