#1 According to a new Army manual, U.S. soldiers will now be instructed to avoid “any criticism of pedophilia” and to avoid criticizing “anything related to Islam”. The following is from a recent
Judicial Watch article…
#2 The Obama administration
has banned all U.S. government agencies from producing any training materials that link Islam with terrorism. In fact, the FBI has gone back and purged references to Islam and terrorism
from hundreds of old documents.
#8 The University of Minnesota – Duluth (UMD) initiated an aggressive advertising campaign earlier this year that included online videos, billboards, and lectures that sought to raise awareness about “
white privilege“.
#9 At one high school down in California, five students
were sent home from school for wearing shirts that displayed the American flag on the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo.
#17 All over the country, the term “manhole” is being replaced with the terms “utility hole” or “maintenance hole”.
#20 All over America,
liberal commentators are now suggesting that football has become “too violent” and “too dangerous” and that it needs to be substantially toned down. In fact, one liberal columnist for the Boston Globe is even proposing that football
should be banned for anyone under the age of 14.
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/20-outrageous-examples-that-show-how-political-correctness-is-taking-over-americaDefinitely not an objective source, of course, but it shows how PC can definitely be an issue. Besides, it is all linked in the article.
Likewise, I suggest you actually document yourself on what you're trying to defend. Try and have a look at the youtube channels Shoe0nHead and especially Thunderf00t and see there how PC can be poison.
I'm all for politeness and the end of racism, but dismissing the current trend in PC, (the bad, more extreme sort especially; not just the use of 'african american' rather than 'black' but that where proper facts are being ignored due to them being considered racist, even if true) which is becoming ever more prevalent, is very foolish and speaks of a lack of knowledge in the area.
If there still is relative poverty in the UK, for example, that doesn't mean the problem of racism should be ignored because relative poverty is subjectively more important. In the same way, even if PC might be of less importance to some than the diminishing of racism, it doesn't mean that PC should just be ignored. Although I'm sure we're on the same page with that.
Political correctness can easily reach a point, and I think already has in many countries in many areas of debate, where it becomes proper censorship, which has the knock on effects of facts not being taken into consideration because they are considered racist, again, despite them being true or at the very least thoroughly researched.
I think you don't exactly understand what people who are against PC think of when they say PC. You might have a different understanding of what PC is.