Politcal Correctness Is Bad

My opponent states that he does not have the space to respond fully to all my points because of the word count. My opponent set the word count and we both have the same word count. If I had enough characters to write the arguments he had enough room to respond to them.That means that he has allowed the following arguments through:What I said earlier was not a strawman fallacy and therefore my statement that people often confuse political correctness with making a valid argument stands.Transgenderism is real and the issues it represents are real. It is not 'politically incorrect' to tell these people that their issues aren't real, neither is it the truth to say so. You are not sugar coating any truth by saying this, you are lying and denying somebody their identity. That is not politically incorrect, that is a form of psychological torture.Pro never got round to showing that political correctness does more bad than it does good. He simply gave two examples of people who got sued for 1. Verbally attacking a disabled child and causing him to receive bullying which is very real and detrimental to his mental health and 2. Verbally assaulting a lesbian woman using incredibly homophobic language for simply kissing her girlfriend on the cheek which would make them feel uneasy about showing affection to their other half in public again in fear of getting ridiculed or attacked. That is very real damage being done on both occasions. Anybody who has watched Game of Thrones knows the damage that words can do. There's a reason Ramsey Bolton renamed Theon 'Wreak.' It was one of the ways in which he physically and mentally destroyed Theon and made him his pet. So those two examples do not show political correctness being more bad than good; these two examples have nothing to do with political correctness and a lot to do with the very real psychological damage that people are capable of doing to others without even thinking about it because they don't think about the power of their words to destroy people's confidence and actually encourage people to ridicule and attack others for something out of their control. Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression does not and should not extend to verbally assaulting somebody for their sexuality or encouraging people to bully a disabled child. That has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with not harming others. Finally, Pro states that political correctness must be removed because most people already have their rights in the first world. This is simply not true. Women do not have the right to be paid equally to men for doing the same job. Black people do not have the right to not be shot by police when they have their hands in the air and are unarmed and posing no threat to anyone and haven't done anything wrong. [1] This is axiomatically incorrect. Political correctness has not been shown to do more bad than it does good by Pro as he has been unable to quote a single person whose ideas have not been known due to political correctness being used to silence them. Pro has accepted that his examples from the previous round did not do this as he has not argued in favour of them after I refuted their relevance. He has also accepted that many 'liberals' can be accepting of opposing political views and do not use political correctness in an attempt to silence anyone in any form. Therefore accepting that the use of political correctness in this way is in the minority. I ask again - if there is one thing that is bad about a concept (not that Pro has actually provided any proof that it happens at all) and even that happens very rarely, then how can the concept be bad overall when it does so much good, for example, in assuring that minorities get their voices heard (who we have just ascertained do not have 'all their rights'). Political correctness is a concept which does more good than harm. Therefore, Pro has failed in his burden of proof to show that, on the whole, political correctness does more bad than good. Vote Con!Sources:[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk...;