{"id":205733,"date":"2017-07-15T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T02:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/letter-the-absurdity-of-political-correctness-lima-ohio\/"},"modified":"2017-07-15T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T02:44:12","slug":"letter-the-absurdity-of-political-correctness-lima-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/politically-incorrect\/letter-the-absurdity-of-political-correctness-lima-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: The absurdity of political correctness &#8211; Lima Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>      Apparently, one of the things conservatives like about Donald      Trump is his propensity to be politically incorrect. I do      believe that as a society we have become overly obsessed with      political correctness. For example, why get bent out of shape      if someone says Merry Christmas? Does it really matter if a      Native American is referred to as an Indian? Islamic      terrorism is a real thing, so why bother to deny it.    <\/p>\n<p>      People often engage in linguistic gymnastics so as not to be      offensive and that is what I consider to be the absurdity of      political correctness.    <\/p>\n<p>      Having said this, I think it is important to make a      distinction between being political incorrect and just plain      bad manners and vulgar behavior. If we are looking to a time      in our history when people were less politically correct, it      is important to remember that plain, blunt language doesnt      need to be vulgar.    <\/p>\n<p>      When was it ever OK to make fun of a womans physical      appearance and refer to her as a fat pig? When was it ever      acceptable to mock someone who suffers from a physical      disability and put them into a position of public derision?      When was it ever proper to imply that a judge could not      render an impartial decision because of his ethnicity? When      you mock and ridicule people on a personal level you arent      being politically incorrect, you are being vulgar and      indecent. There is a difference and it is important to      recognize the distinction.    <\/p>\n<p>      James Carr, Celina    <\/p>\n<p>  .<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/limaohio.com\/opinion\/letters\/251800\/letter-the-absurdity-of-political-correctness\" title=\"Letter: The absurdity of political correctness - Lima Ohio\">Letter: The absurdity of political correctness - Lima Ohio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Apparently, one of the things conservatives like about Donald Trump is his propensity to be politically incorrect. I do believe that as a society we have become overly obsessed with political correctness. For example, why get bent out of shape if someone says Merry Christmas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/politically-incorrect\/letter-the-absurdity-of-political-correctness-lima-ohio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politically-incorrect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}