Political correctness: Difference between revisions

'''Political correctness''' is the well-intentioned attempt at regulating political speech in order to avoid hurting people's feelings. Its proponents assume that if one limits speech to nice words, everyone will be nice. And secondly, that people are immediately triggered and ''traumatized'' when they are hurt by words. Both assumptions are false. Political correctness does not reduce conflict and hurt feelings ''at all''. It simply defers it to different means than smashing one another with offensive words, and stifles freedom of expression.