Is Political Correctness Helping Terrorism?

[vernonk]

Discuss

[TWR]

You can not change the mind of scum can you.

[fiction-factory]

I'd start my essay by trying to define political correctness (not easy to do as the phrase is often used without any clear thinking as to what it means ) and terrorism ( bit easier to define but it can range from individual cases like someone holding a family hostage to IS style international terrorism).

[naomi24]

Yes, it is.

[weecalf]

My problem would be its terms of reference .Political correctness in my years and Im nearly 50 l never seen a policitian correct about anything

[mikey4444]

Vernonk....you haven't given any details about what particular aspect of PC is doing this ?

Not calling disabled people cripples is an important PC move, as is not using offensive phrases for mentally handicaps children such as window-lickers follows the same approach.

So please explain what you actually mean.

[naomi24]

He's very clearly talking about terrorism - not the disabled!

[Ninefingers]

Of course it is, political correctness is the base form of appeasement.

Good Morning folks

[naomi24]

Ninefingers, morning. :o)

[dannyk13]

FF, definition here:-
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/politically-correct

[jim360]

As opposed to disastrously unsuccessful Western interventions in the Middle East, going back well over a hundred years or so, you mean?

[naomi24]

Jim, I don't think that is what he means. Do you not understand what he's asking?

[youngmafbog]

jim understands very well, but as usual, he is attempting to deflect from whet he will perceive as an awkward answer. Much like Mickey has done.

The answer is yes, very much so. There are other things but being locked from meaning ful discussion by howls of Ray-sist by the right-on brigade have aided and abetted this sad situation we are in today.

[naomi24]

youngmafbog, I think you're right.

[jim360]

I'm not really trying to deflect, although granted it looks that way.

I don't accept that the question is all that well-defined to start with. What is it specifically about P.C. that might be "helping" terrorism in the first place?

[naomi24]

Jim, A penchant for avoiding the question for a start. You've responded by talking about the west's intervention in the Middle East and Mikey has, for some strange reason, spoken about the disabled. The question is clear enough.

[jim360]

It really isn't that clear, though.

But anyway. As best as I can answer the question, I don't really think that terrorists give a toss one way or the other whether or not the West is obsessed with PC. I don't think that cries of racism have abetted anything (although they aren't necessarily helpful in themselves all of the time). One might even argue the other way: where targets of terrorism were specific, they are often decidedly non-PC, as in the Charlie Hebdo offices. (To be clear, I am categorically *not* blaming the Charlie Hebdo victims for what happened to them.)

So, no. I don't think that "Political Correctness" has anything to do with it. I might wonder what exactly leads anyone to think that a world in which we are less trusting, more disrespectful and more discriminatory would somehow be a safer place. Would the people determined to blow us up start then to think, "oh dear they hate us, I'm not messing with that lot"? Wouldn't that provide yet more motivation?

PC in its satirical form ("Oh hello Mr Blind Person, sorry, I mean visually challenged, how nice to see you -- OH NOOOOOOO I'm SO SORRY!") helps no-one and nothing, to be sure. But that isn't "real" PC, really. And, in the end, if people are determined to kill other people as often, and as horribly, as possible then they'll find the excuse for it no matter what we do or how we behave.

[mikey4444]

The question is far from clear !

"Is Political Correctness Helping Terrorism"

Its vague in the extreme. In what way is PC helping terrorism ?

[TWR]

In my way of thinking Jim, if they ( Terrorists) are caught, it works 2 ways, Get rid.

[jim360]

I've read that sentence three times and I still don't know what you are trying to say.

[mikey4444]

Jim....a lack of lucidity seems to be a problem this morning !