Rant: Political Correctness

’m sick of political correctness.

I’m sick of wondering if the term African American is the only one available to me or is it okay for me to call someone a ‘black guy.’ I’m sick of trying to word a sentence to describe someone but only to leave out their color because I’m not sure how to do it in a "non-racial matter".
I’m sick of avoiding conversations about race relations because a slip of teh toung, or a misunderstanding might just earn me an ass whooping. Sure, I could dart my eyes around and breathlessly whisper, “Then he said the N-word!” But seriously, now! The N-word? Are we fucking children here? Grow up.

Nigger. There, I said it.

What’s more is that lots of other people still stay it, too. They just say it quietly and behind closed doors. Race relations have not improved just because white people know that black people have guns now, too.

My questions is: How are we supposed to improve race relations if we’re too scared to talk about them in the first place?

Also, am I allowed you call you gay? Or do I have to sound all dry and technical and say ‘Homosexual?’ I am not scared or intimidated because you enjoy sticking things where they usually don't belong. On the contrary, I applaud you because sticking things where they don't belong never caused an accidental pregnancy and I’m all for less episodes of ‘Super Nanny.’
I have absolutely no religious objections to man on man/woman on woman love.
My only problems that I’m not sure what I’m allowed to call you anymore.

Again: How are we supposed to learn that you’re just like us (only with better fashion sense) if we avoid interaction with you simply because we don’t want to accidentally offend?

Additionally, will you men please stop apologizing after you say anything that can even remotely be seen as sexist? If you quote a statistic you read that says women aren’t usually as good at math as men, I promise most women won’t run out of the room in tears. They should know that you are not implying that a scientific study totally absent of gender bias proves that women couldn’t possibly be good at math EVER so they should get back into the kitchen RIGHT NOW and make you a pie; you are simply pointing out that men, as a whole, are a little better at math. The truth is I’m horrible at math. And that’s okay because I do own a calculator. Men and women are different sometimes, but that doesn’t mean they are fundamentally unequal.
So stop apologizing.

All Muslims are terrorists. Jews are greedy. Chinese women all know how to put on acrylic fingernails. Christians are bigots. If you’re a geeky teenage boy and you read a book about vampires, you’ll shoot up your school.

Is any of this shit actually true? I’d ask, but I don’t want to offend.

Political correctness does not create a more tolerant society. It creates a society of people secretly consumed by resentment because one honest slip of the tongue can earn them a label as an intolerant asshole. Political correctness limits speech and creates hatred where none existed in the first place.

I have an idea;
How about we drop all this politically correct bullshit?
How about we all talk to each other openly and honestly without making certain words off limits and without deeming certain subject taboo?
How about we eliminate the fear of offending our fellow man and replace it with an honest attempt at understanding our fellow man?

..Go ahead, ask me anything. I won’t cry and I won’t tell you what a bad person you are. In return, however, I might want to ask you a couple of questions. Please don’t pistol whip me because you didn’t like my phrasing. Real tolerance comes from education, so let’s all quit being afraid to raise our hands in class. We're not fuckin' children.

We might just end up loving each other after all. Or we might end up hating each other’s guts. But, either way, we’ll be loving and hating for all the right reasons.