Political Correctness is counterproductive

Political correctness is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, religious belief, disability, and age-related contexts, and doing so to an excessive extent. http://en.wikipedia.org... The purpose of political correctness is allegedly to avoid offending or marginalizing the disadvantaged or discriminated against. It sounds good in theory, and even in practice, to some extent. I'm certainly not sad to see the words "nigger" and "faggot" fall out of favor, for example. My dear friend, the above statement is somewhat hypocritical, wouldn’t you say. The equivalent of this would be to say that you are a vegetarian, but you are delighted to have KFC across the road. You have to decide if you are for or against the political correctness, otherwise just arguing weather PC has being counterproductive, without necessarily coming to a conclusion of whether we need it or not would be a waste of time for both of us. I'm certainly not sad to see the word "nigger" fall out of favor has suddenly turned into our intelligent well-being being put at risk because Alan Gribben has decided to substitute the word “Nigger” for the word “Slave” in Huckleberry Finn. Hypocrisy all over again. http://www.cbsnews.com... “By perpetually changing our language to be more sensitive to those who are already discriminated against, we draw constant attention to their differences, drawing a very definite line between "us" and "them" -- the very definition of marginalization”. First of all there is no US and THEM. It’s just US. Second of all please define - who are already discriminated against, I assume by descriminated you reffer to people being victimized by those who DO NOT FOLLOW PC. In other words you are saying lets not use PC so we would not draw attention to people to whom attention has already been drawn by those who do not follow PC. On a scale of 1 to 10 you are scored 11 for confusing us. Second of all, Marginalization is the very opposite of the purpose and the outcome of political correctness. Marginalize - to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power. http://dictionary.reference.com... Marginal - not considered central or important; insignificant, minor, small. http://dictionary.reference.com... If I understand it correctly, what con saying is that substituting the word Nigger for the word Slave belittles Black People???? http://www.cbsnews.com... The amount of censorship the PC movement has caused (links 1 ad 2, just to name a couple of recent incidents) puts many important things at risk. First, our intellectual well-being. May I state that you are marginalizing by putting your Intellectuall well-being (I don’t even see how this is relevant) above the feelings of those with disability, those of ethnical minority, religion, sexual orientation etc. Go out on a street, walk up to a disabled kid and tell him you are going to call him crippled to preserve your intellectual well being and I will bring you cookies in Jail. Finally, please, please, please provide us with one example of when you think political correctness has been misused. Better yet, when you think it has been used to CAUSE MARGINALIZATION. One example is all I ask for. I am sure you could do better than a Canadian rock band. When did the use of political correctness hurt the society?? Also please define what you mean by OUR Intel Well Being. My argument is that of a simple nature. It is not the political correctness that creates tension in the society but the lack of knowledge of what PC means. While the purpose of Political correctness was to express oneself without hurting someone’s feelings, it had turned into a tool of mass silencing. We are not educated enough as to what is a right thing to say and what is a wrong thing to say. But take this simple idea(PC) away and boy do I not think it would be a good world to live in. Con is looking at a very important issue in the society, but from a completely wrong angle.