Political Correctness Gone Mad

We often read about ‘political correctness gone mad’. It makes me shake my head in wonderment, sometimes.

I mean, some people object to ‘political correctness’. But what are they suggesting? That we should encourage political incorrectness? Wouldn’t that mean being abusive, or at least unkind to people?

Needlessly.

Why would anybody encourage that?

And the term itself is, in fact a negative phrase. Why is it political?

Why can’t we just promote ‘correctness’?

In all we do?

When they say it’s ‘gone mad’ they mean it prevents them from using some kind of lazy stereotype or offensive term that they have always used without thought.

Good.

So I hereby declare a new term for political correctness, mad or otherwise.

Henceforth, it will just be known as ‘correctness’.

Even this will be a transient label, because in a year or three we will just call it ‘normal’.

If you disagree with these thoughts, simply respond with ’political correctness gone mad’ and we’ll know what you mean.