According to Wikileaks, the term "Politically Correct" refers to a person who alters their speech so as to not offend any person, or group of persons.
I am offended by things like "Black Lives Matter," not that I am devaluing the lives of African Americans, I just believe that ALL lives matter, regardless of your race, creed, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and any other qualifier you can think of. I believe we are all God's children (whichever God that people worship), and have a right to live our lives without being gunned down in the street by punks, gangsters, or police.
However... If I were to express those sentiments publicly, I would be shouted down as a racist, and THAT, my friends, is a direct violation of my First Amendment Right to "Freedom of Speech," if not a blatant attempt to control my thinking (which I guarantee will not work).
Additionally, I am not particularly comfortable in the presence of homosexuals, transsexuals, trans-gendered, people. For that, I am labeled "homophobic," despite the fact that I have been friends with a few people who describe themselves by their sexual preferences. Personally, I don't give a rodent's rump what you do in your bedroom, in fact I'd be enormously happy not to know your sexual habits. I don't talk about mine (my wife would kill me if I did), and would prefer it if your sex life wasn't a topic of discussion at all. By the way, when did someones sex preferences become a political issue anyway?
I'm not comfortable with large groups of Muslims (or Jehovah's Witnesses, for that matter), and for that I am called a "hater," and my wife's nephew keeps trying to school me on how peaceful Islam is. The fact of the matter is that Muslims have been at war with Jews, as well as other MUSLIM sects ever since the Seventh Century. I don't hate Muslim people, I've read a good part of the Koran (however you want to spell the Islamic book), trying to understand a little about them before I visited North Africa while in the Navy. My problem with bringing Syrian refugees to the US lies in the hap-hazard way the Administration is doing it's background checks, not, in any way, because of their religion.
I am offended by labels such as, "racist," "hater," and "homophobe," so, all of you so-called "Politically Correct" jerk-offs, check your presumed superiority at the door, because you are more offensive than anyone. The Constitution of the United States of America gives me the right to express myself using any words I choose. Try to silence me... I triple-dog-dare you (screw the playground rules) to try and stop me. Call me all of those things, but don't put it in print, because I'll use it as evidence in my Civil Rights lawsuit against you.
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