Politically Correctness is Politically Incorrect in itself

To address your concern that I only described why to be politically correct, I felt that the only conclusion that could be drawn from your argument was to abandon political correctness as a standard of behavior. I think that this is the wrong method to take and therefore I offered additional reasons to adopt "politically correct" behavior. However, I also felt that I offered defensive reasons why "political correctness" was not "politically incorrect in itself." Seeing as how my arguments may have been lost in the broader argument above, I will repeat them since you appear to not be advocating the conclusion that I assumed had to be drawn from your original argument. That said, this response will be directed specifically at the claim that you articulated in the topic. You unfortuntely did not see a response to your claim that the statement "Merry Christmas" does not push your views on others. Not only do I feel that I offered a response to that above, I also thought that I offered reasons why saying Happy Holidays did not violate your freedom of expression or beliefs. I will now rearticulate these supports. You say, "Really what I see in Politically Correctness is PC stopping people from expressing there Beliefs and Religion." However, (this is quoted from above) "No one has stopped anyone from celebrating Christmas. (I'm using the Christian religion here, because that is the only way in which this critique could be situated as you'll see from my later arguments.) If it got to the point where people were forbidden from worshipping or celebrating Christmas, it would no longer be political correctness." You are not stopped from celebrating Christmas simply from assuming that other folks are celebrating Christmas. You say, "Like the Happy Holidays thing...when i say "Merry Christmas" do i push my religion on Jews or Muslims?" You claim that the answer to this question is no, but I strongly disagree. While you may not be forcing them to worship as you assume, you are in fact restricting their freedom of expression. Muslims, Jewish folks, Buddhists, etc. do not celebrate Christmas. Atheists do not celebrate any holiday. When you say "Merry Christmas" you act as if that is the only legitimate expression of religious identity. This does not account for folks that are non-Christian and don't recognize Christmas as a holiday. However, everyone in the United States, around the latter half of December, will recognize at least one holiday. Some folks have religious holidays (such as Christian folks with Christmas and Jewish folks and Chanukkah) while everyone at least recognizes the arrival of the new calendar year. This is a broad based and secular holiday. Therefore, the "politically correct language" avoids assumptions or the possibility of further marginalization, while still allowing people to freely express their form of religious identity. As I had said earlier, "If you say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas, how does that prohibit you from expressing your own religion or beliefs? Is Christmas not a holiday?" To say that it prohibits your free expression is to say that Christmas is not a holiday. Christmas is included in the phrase "Happy Holidays" while Chanukkah is not included in the phrase "Merry Christmas." So while it would not be offensive to wish someone that you know celebrates Christmas a "Merry Christmas," it is a totally different situation with folks that you don't know. To clarify this argument, I think that I offered many arguments why political correctness is a beneficial thing. I did this, because I feel that the only conclusion that can be drawn from your argument is to abandon politically correct language. Even if this is not the conclusion to be drawn from your argument, I feel that I have sufficiently responded to your concerns with "political correctness," while you failed to articulate any reasons why it does limit or marginalize folks in the dominant group. If you can't answer my question of whether Christmas is a holiday in the negative, then it is impossible to articulate that Christians are limited by wishing people a "Happy Holiday." This argument on its own is sufficient to side with the "Con" in this argument as it proves beyond a doubt that political correctness includes more people while not marginalizing anyone. It was nice debating with you and thanks for following up.