Political correctness is something that should be acknowledged as a threat to society.

Thank you for your arguments, first off you brought up, "In the face of all this, the charge that political correctness is somehow cultural "Marxism" appears to be quite irrelevant""There have always been "taboo" topics..." An article was published by Agustin Blazquez with the collaboration of Jaums Sutton, its posted on http://archive.newsmax.com... I think a piece of this article would help to explain. It [PC] was developed at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, which was founded in 1923 and came to be known as the "Frankfurt School." It was a group of thinkers who pulled together to find a solution to the biggest problem facing the implementers of communism in Russia. The problem? Why wasn't communism spreading? Their answer? Because Western Civilization was in its way. What was the problem with Western Civilization? Its belief in the individual, that an individual could develop valid ideas. At the root of communism was the theory that all valid ideas come from the effect of the social group of the masses. The individual is nothing. And they believed that the only way for communism to advance was to help (or force, if necessary) Western Civilization to destroy itself. How to do that? Undermine its foundations by chipping away at the rights of those annoying individuals. One way to do that? Change their speech and thought patterns by spreading the idea that vocalizing your beliefs is disrespectful to others and must be avoided to make up for past inequities and injustices. And call it something that sounds positive: "Political Correctness." One idea that we must rid of is that PC was always around, a taboo of not wanting to talk about kissing is not PC. Of course your not going to want to talk to your parents about the girls you kiss and how it was. But that is not PC. We as a whole have been made to believe that PC is just being polite, nice, whatever, as i will get to later. But in actuality, that is not it. PC was a weapon against us to eliminate our free speech and thinking. Right now we have just mild effects of the plan set up by the Frankfurt school, but it will get worse. And we should acknowledge PC as a threat to society. "The idea of changing the words that one uses... in order to conform to cultural expectations is as old as humanity itself" Can you explain to me these "cultural expectations" and why conformity is good. "This is not oppression - this is simple politeness." You constantly referred to PC as "politeness" Which i find flawed. I can be polite, open doors for people, compliment them, yada yada. But PC is not that. It is not only the things you say, as you implied that its not taking away freedom of speech. But it is also the things you do. Like passing SB777 in California which will allow members of the opposite sex into each others bathroom, if they claim to be gay. In an attempt to please a small group, you put girls lives at risk. The gays are not the ones im worried about, im sure that would work, but what i am worried about is if some guy lies. He has a door literally wide open to do terrible things. But my point is that SB777 is not simple politeness. Holding a door for a person is polite, politeness never has negative outcomes. But most PC things do have a negative outcome. "it helps to reaffirm the idea that the targeted minority group is "different" and "separate" from the dominant group... Division is not in the best interests of any nation, and the promotion of unity is a very important aim of politeness." Division? This is an effect of NOT being PC? I agree that we must be unified, but PC makes everything seem ok on the surface, but what is the person really thinking? I am not fighting to use demineing terms, but i am fighting to respect our freedom of speech. If one is a certain was at home, shouldnt that be what he shows to the world? PC creates these two faced people that are filled with terrible feelings, but don't express those things. Im sure your thinking,"why would we want people to express bad feelings?" Take this for an example. You boss is a complete jerk. But you don't want to say anything because you dont want to offend him. So when he asks what you think of him you are PC and say, "oh your great". But the boss has had the feeling that you dont like him so he asked you that you if you said he was horrible, he would change his ways. But when he heard you say he was great, he just thinks you like a "stern hand". So on the surface it seems to be unified, but what is really happening is bad feelings. And sometimes those feelings need to be brought out in order to understand life and each other. "definitions of "political correctness" are too broad and become useless in discussion." We must understand that no matter how one interprets PC, it was meant as a tool to harm us. "unless state-based harms can be demonstrated, it is exceedingly difficult to say that politeness infringes upon ones legal right to free speech or that it at all "threatens society" First, PC is not "politeness". There are many examples, obvious examples of state-based harms by PC. SB777 in California, trying to take "under God" out of the pledge of allegiance, purple pens, awarding for mediocre accomplishment. Its out there, and there are many examples. I look foward to hearing back from you.