Being P.C.

I really do not like the fact that this society has become so politically correct, P.C. I personally blame the educational giants that we send our children to. In that setting there is a dictatorship between teachers and students. Children are bred to follow rules and to be sensitive to their peers and to the elders. I think this is complete and totally bull.

Let’s start off by examining the role of the "educator". This person is to stand in front of a group of students and explain a subject which was passed at a power higher than them. That, so-called, educator is apart of the system and right or wrong is teaching the system to the younger generation. They are destroying free thought and expression and polluting young growing minds with diseased garbage of American Education Text Books. This educator may or may not know the subject matter in full; however, this person will stand before the students like they are all knowing. Not getting to involved in the destruction of free thought, let’s stick to the subject matter of this blog.

Being in an educational setting for many years, there are phrases and words that can and can not be used. This is in fear of, not harming someone's feelings, however, to avoid a lawsuit. Simple words such as retard can no longer be used, even if you are explaining to a peer that you feel retarded today. That term will be taken out of text and examined for only the negative connotation of the word. But, in fact, you might be feeling slow that day from a night of heavy drinking and in fact your brain would feel the effect of being retarded.

Another word that I find foolish to punish for is the word "gay". Words evolve just like everything else. The word "gay" first meant happy, then evolved into homosexuality, and now the word "gay" can mean stupid. Are there other words to express the feeling stupid, yes, but why should we sensor ourselves for the sake of being P.C. If a word bothers you that bad where it will make you have panic attacks and might force you to die, I can see looking at the word to make it lesser. But the fact is, there are no words that present that health risk to humans. Words are words, it’s the over sensitivity of people that censor language. Language can be beautiful in all forms, to censor such should be labeled a crime.

Because of this over sensitivity to language, great books and essays will never be read by young readers. I say shame on the education department for banning greats such as,

Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
Rights of a Man – Thomas Paine
Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

"For only when free men write and speak truth will the exercise of arbitrary power be exposed and opposed."