# 5. Political Correctness

I have a feeling the top 5 will really rankle a few people, but this is my blog and how I feel so be it.

Why am I so against political correctness? The fact that it has failed and started creating a bizzaro world. I mean think about it. In the 70's America had a beloved show called All in the Family, it featured a bigoted main character. This kind of bigotry would most likely not be allowed on the big three networks any longer, possibly not even basic cable stations like FX. In All in the Family you did have a main character who had a flawed way at looking at things and it often led to comedic spots in the show, but in the end the main character could always be trusted to do the right thing in the end, mostly for his family. What was missing from that show? Swearing, nudity, sexual situations, etc. etc. etc.

So with the growing movement of political correctness you have more gratuitous violence and sex, drugs, but you can not have a character who has biased opinions. The only show I can think of in recent memory would be Rescue Me on FX, but that still had all the sex and drugs alcohol, violence etc that All in the Family did not need. The main character in Rescue Me was biased for sure but it was more like biased lite, they never pushed it too far for fear of the backlash.

Now am I saying there should be a comedic show featuring the Klan or Black Panthers? Absolutely not. My feeling here is that when we censor free speech and reality we lose part of who we are. Our country is filled with bigots and the best way to handle them is to laugh at their absurdity and perhaps try and show them the errors of their way.

Then there is the thing called "Hateful Speech" this has gotten out of control as well. I understand that we should not be going around yelling blatantly hateful things to each other, but it has gotten to the point where everyone has some kind of pet name so as not to speak the truth. As an example I will describe myself as a fat, lazy, crude, slob of a man who likes to speak his mind mostly at the wrong time. Translate that into "non-hateful" speech and I am a gravimetrically challenged, non-overachiever, who sometimes does things that would be described as non-happyish.

My feeling is hey, I'm a big boy tell it like it is. I grew up and was called fat, stupid, retarded, even a gayrod (5th grade), amazing I was called all these things and yet I made it through and became a productive member of society. Why? Because I grew a thick skin, that's why, it could be a reason for why I am crude but I can live with that. I'm more productive as a matter of fact than most people I knew that were never called those names and were sheltered by their parents from the mean hurtful words.

Political Correctness became a big thing in the 90's and I have seen a decline in our society ever since then. Maybe its time to start calling it like it is again. Maybe then we will have less cases of bullying. See when you have kids who have been sheltered from the meanness of the world and are suddenly exposed to one side or the other of it bad things happen. On the bullied side you have a person who is suddenly getting picked on and is not prepared to shrug it off and even worse becomes easy prey for more bullies. On the bully side you have people who have suppressed their natural animal instinct to dominate others (Alpha male/female), once they turn on that side of their psyche it's almost like they need to make up for lost time and go a bit off the deep end. Incidences of bullying have become shocking at just what is done to the bullied. We've gone from calling people "idiots" to group beatings, that's insane but is expected when you have people making up for lost time.

It's time to start letting people be people again, if you don't like the way a person treats you, stand up for yourself or don't go near that person, it works!