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Politically Incorrect by Johnny Lee Howard. Copyright 2004.
From studio album It #39;s A Long Way Back. Copyright 2004, Johnny Lee Howard. KMA Records. Nashville, TN.

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Politically Incorrect Smiley
No wonder Smiley always ends up alone. Lessons in proper etiquette are long overdue for the little guy.

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Joe Battaglia: The Politically Incorrect Jesus: Why I Chose This Book Title
In a WND TV interview, Joe Battaglia talks about his new book, The Politically Incorrect Jesus: Living Boldly In A Culture Of UnBelief. In the ever increasingly secular and politically correct...

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During this school year, unlike during others Ive spent as a student at the University, Ive found campus sentiment to be overwhelmingly shrouded in politically correct rhetoric. In an article regarding my connection to Judaism and Israel I wrote last October, I received two comments in which readers accused me of justifying the killing of 1,400 Palestinians during Israels incursion in Gaza. This was in no way what Id been arguing, and I believed the comments had been completely taken out of context, in order to confirm the readers biases that a Jewish student commenting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would always side with Israel.

In order to avoid any more misconceptions, and frankly, in order to cover my ass, I rewrote the sentence that had prompted any accusations against my social consciousness. On a larger scale, this was a disturbing reality to me. People reading a politically charged article oftentimes take a somewhat ambiguous line from a piece and morph it into what they want it to mean in order to display their moral superiority.

In this day and age, social awareness seems to have become a status symbol. All over the Internet, people post comments on media platforms that attempt to highlight an authors lack of political correctness. But are these comments really attempting to educate the writer, or are they purely assuaging the commenter by publicly exposing what might seem to be evidence of moral superiority?

This is an omnipresent issue not only online, but also in conversations held on campus regarding racism, sexism, cultural appropriation, rape culture, etc. The social issues that hold such a deep significance in contemporary society are spoken about, but in such politically correct terminology that those who are unaware of certain realities are stifled from actually delving into conversation. Being called out is a powerful educational tool. But it should be done tactfully, rather than preached, because exposing someones ignorance oftentimes promotes an unnecessary power dynamic between those who are educated about an issue and those who are not.

Let us use Jesse Kleins article, Relative Wealth, as an example. Her piece was uninformed and offensive. However, did readers think that her views were founded upon knowledge of economic disparity in America? If so, they shouldnt have. An article like hers was founded upon ignorance, and although I originally believed that the piece shouldnt have been published, it garnered both harmful and beneficial responses. Personal attacks on Klein were made within the slew of 348 comments that she received. These, of course, were unnecessary and perfectly exemplify the use of a comment as a status symbol. A comment demeaning the writer, while highlighting ones own sensibilities, is done selfishly. On the other hand, a response like Jenny Wangs was completely appropriate in that it opened a forum for discussion, without admonishing Klein. What Wang offered was perspective, which is truly the only teacher of social awareness.

After Klein read hurtful responses to her piece and experienced what I can only imagine was the inclination to regress into a hole for the rest of eternity, she bravely came out with another article, much more clearly articulating her original point. In her response piece, she wrote, Online, my nave perception of wealth was called the Problem with America. In the real world, there are a lot of problems with America which, with any luck, can be fixed by learning from a few mistakes.

So, Klein is an example of positive reformation after having been called out. Although her situation was extreme, the responses proved to be enlightening. But, what about the responses that were purely motivated by negativity and public recognition?

There is a clear argument for political correctness and making the politically incorrect aware of their mistakes. But, as Klein pointed out, problems are fixed by learning from such mistakes. Im proud of my University that in recent years, students have become much more aware of the social and political issues that maintain inequality. But not everyone is aware of these realities, due to a lack of perspective. Ignorance, however, should not be confronted with judgment.

So, to those who are judgmental of the politically incorrect, be sensitive. To those who are unaware of the depths of social issues in America, educate yourself. A 600-word Daily article written by a student in a social theory class isnt going to educate you about white privilege. Expanding yourself beyond the familiar is what will.

Political correctness is a Band-Aid it assuages those who extend it, and it frightens those who dont understand it. So hopefully the PC trend leaves us, and what replaces it is education, discussion and the search for perspective.

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Abby Taskier: The PC trend

As a close (female) friend once remarked I just love Top Gear except for the little boring bits about cars.

And thats the point, the family light entertainment/comedy/travel show which Top Gear had become wasnt about cars at all it was about being globally politically incorrect, badly behaved, and casually insulting about Johnny Foreigner in a world where so many get so uptight about all three. Bonza!!! In short, Top Gear was UKIP TV before the party even arrived on the national stage except with more cash and better gags.

It became a weird national safety-valve allowing Clarkson to sound off like millions want to, but cant now because they fear everything from Twitter hysteria through to an industrial tribunal via some unsmiling HR robot who never saw the funny side.

So it was Men Behaving Badly and One Man Really, forget cars thats what people liked.

In an age when rock stars, sport stars (except football) indeed stars of all sorts and political stars most of all are essentially dulled by walls of PR and PC flummery Clarkson and Top Gear stood out.

Misbehaviour was the whole point. Auntie tolerated it nervously and creamed off the money from the global cash-cow this shouty, insulting, expensive panto had become.

Thats why Nigel Farage has done so well in the polls hes a political Clarkson he never quite received the PC/PR memo and very many people adore that in these times when above all else everyone in public life is terrified of actually saying what they feel. Hes to politics what Clarkson is to the telly.

The instantaneously, precious world of easily-offended social media heightens all this of course.

Being offensive: this is what Clarkson was for. He personally and the show generally.

The entire charade of course has long become increasingly hackneyed, ever more scripted and contrived to create offence at all cost editorially and allow Clarkson a stage to do it personally with the oh-so-scripted faux upsets with two other presenters who increasingly only exist to set Clarkson up to Clarksonise.

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Jeremy Clarkson and the outrage industry