Perhaps we, as society, need to stop being so ultra-sensitive to anything and everything that rubs us the wrong way. If you are offended by something, then change the channel, don’t watch it, don’t listen to it…move on.
Frankly, I am tired of the morality police telling me what I can and cannot be exposed to; I am an adult and if I hear something that I don’t like, I have the emotional resilience to be exposed to it with intellectual impunity or to simply tune it out: I don’t need the Media 
or some self-righteous “pillar of morality” to get into a tizzy and squelch someone else’s opinion to prevent me from being exposed to it.
The old adage applies: I may not agree with you, but I will fight for your right to express it.
The underlying impetus of Political Correctness was to alter the way people think, which isn’t always such a bad thing, but Political Correctness in practice doesn’t do that…it only prevents us from knowing who people really are and how they really think or feel.
Political Correctness is a flawed social precept and I can’t subscribe to a social convention that simply means you can’t say or write something you think or feel, because of how people may react to it. At its best, it’s just a form of self-censorship, at its worst, it’s a tool used by the weak-minded to persecute people for saying out-loud something they probably agree with in their head, but wouldn’t dare say out-loud.
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Tony // May 29, 2007 at 10:21 am
Ya I totaly agree, don’t like it change the chanell, the attitude I get from these people are, “If you don’t have teh same morals as me then your opnion dose not deserve to be heard”, this has been going on for ever it seems like, I think its time for them to fell like their values arnt as important as others
dotSomething // May 29, 2007 at 10:41 am
I partly blame Punky Brewster and The Facts of Life for the current environment of the Morality Police…I say that partly in jest, however 80s shows like that really stated to push the morality tales of being nice and that everyone has feelings and deserves to be heard. Everything in moderation, but by the mid-/late-90s, it started to go to far and now we’re crossing the line daily.
This is, of course, tongue-in-cheek, but it’s around the 80s when we started pushing the concept of PC and I think it hurts us in the extremes to which it is applied, certainly more than it helps us.