Political Correctness is a way of speaking that is designed to avoid offending people. It elicits a lot of controversy however, as some believe it stifles free speech, whereas others believe it's needed to protect certain groups that are often stereotyped or prejudiced. There is also another group of people who remain apathetic towards political correctness, maintaining that it neither helps nor hinders the groups that it is intended to protect. In this video I have organised the debate into 3 groups, those who are in favour of political correctness, those against, and those who remain apathetic towards it, they think it does nothing. Let’s get to it.
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Those in favour of Political Correctness stress that our words are very powerful and we need to be careful about how we use them. We could risk harming others, maybe by promoting certain stereotypes that lock minorities out of the debate, or in the sense that our words can actively, trigger trauma for certain groups, for example domestic abuse victims. In this sense, Political Correctness, or tailoring our vocabulary not to offend anybody is about respect. Furthermore, proponents of political correctness argue that having certain rules and guidelines in place it improves civil discourse as a whole, by forcing people to avoid demagogic sensationalized arguments that rely on stereotypes, and instead rephrase their arguments, relying on statistics, and not appealing to emotion. Stepping back a bit, because I realise what I just said is quite a mouthful, a demagogue is somebody who appeals to people’s emotions and prejudices through arguments that reflect these, as opposed to rational arguments. In a democracy we often risk being at the whim of demagogues, because of the universality of the system, almost anybody can run for office and almost everybody can vote- arguably political correctness provides a standard that prevents people from appealing to the everyman’s prejudices and avoiding demagoguery.
Now for opponents of political correctness. Opponents argue that political correctness does not prevent demagoguery and hatred, instead it fuels it. By making certain terms and topics off limits, it results in censorship that leads to toxic views developing. This can arguably be demonstrated in the rise of Donald Trump, a man who rose to prominence in the 2016 Republican Primaries by saying exactly what he thought, brazen and often offensive though it was. Many have argued that Trump’s rise had a lot to do with a backlash against the politically correct culture in America, on college campuses and in the media/. Opponents of political correctness also ask the more general question of who decides what is and what isn't politically correct? It’s an important question, because it draws attention to the idea that political correctness is a form of suppression, a small out of touch clique dictating what is right and wrong to the rest of us.
The final group of arguments about political correctness represents a sort of apathy. These people neither support nor oppose political correctness, instead they believe it’s useless but also harmless. The argument goes that using a word like spokesperson, as opposed to spokesman doesn’t reduce the gender pay gap, or help to eliminate sexist stereotypes about women in the workplace. These people argue that highlighting certain terminology as sexist or racist or homophobic offers nothing tangible in terms of actively eliminating sexism, racism or homophobia. Furthermore those who are apathetic towards political correctness don’t see it as stifling free speech, they argue that in most cases people aren’t compelled to use certain terminology, asking people to use certain terms is hardly robbing anybody of anything. In this sense the apathetic group of people is a contrast between the people who bang on about PC Culture gone mad, SJWs rekt etc and the other group who thinks that using the word actor as opposed to actress is tantamount to depriving women of their civil rights.
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