I really hate political correctness. Don’t take this to assume that I’m culturally insensitive, racist or sexist. Nothing could be further from the truth. I do however feel that by enforcing laws about political correctness you are inhibiting the very freedoms you are trying to protect.Case in point, it is insensitive of me to refer to an African American as “black”. This is because the term “black” refers to a physical trait and therefore must be derogatory. Yet, it would be completely natural if someone were to refer to me as being “white”. No eyebrows would raise, there would be no animosity in the room. So by declaring it to be insensitive to say a black person is black you’re really singling out black people. You’re not helping to eliminate racism, but rather, promoting it while hiding behind morals.

In my opinion.

Also, affirmative action sucks. Hard. It really boils down to our saying “sure we don’t like blacks, women, gays, and other visible minorities, but we’ll give them jobs in order to prevent a hefty fine.” Who wants a job where they know that the only reason they qualified is because of something it would be indecent to mention? I don’t really get the mentality there. If it were me I would rather not work than work in a job with an obvious but unmentioned glass ceiling where the only purpose of my employment was to be the token black guy.

The same goes for women in the workplace. I do not think that women should be subject to slack standard based soley on the fact that they are women. “Sure, you’re not as good as a man would be, but we’ll just ignore that and give you a job anyways.” Firemen come to mind here. Women have different requirements for admittance. I hate to break it to you, but if you can’t do as good of a job as the guy next to you I don’t give a rats ass whether you’re a woman or not. I want buddy beside you to be the guy responsible for saving my life. I’m 6′8″ and 250lbs. There aren’t many women who could move me, let alone drag me down three flights of stairs in a burning building. If a woman can meet the same requirements as a man, then she should be a firefighter. Otherwise, drive the truck or something, I don’t care, just don’t leave me in a burning building.

While I do understand the necessity for these laws, the implied stereotypes built right into them drives me insane. It’s a law that states “To prove that you’re no different than anyone else, we’ll afford you special treatment based on your differences.”

Baffling.