This is a better thread to talk about political correctness in, but here’s a great example of why I hate it:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/northampton-police-department-high-five-fridays-program-canceled/
You can’t just call everyone doing things you don’t like “political correctness.” Nothing about this has anything to do with political correctness, just stupid parents being annoying as often happens.
I would argue that it does because they are telling this school and police department to stop doing this for the sake of the supposedly marginalized students. How does that not line up with the definition of political correctness, which I’ll include below so that we’re on the same page.
the avoidance, often considered as taken to extremes, of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.
EDIT: Just to be clear, even if a student is uncomfortable with seeing a police officer at their school (keep in mind that they don’t have to give him a high five), who cares? Why should a few students being scared mean that the cops aren’t allowed on school property? They need to learn that cops exist and that they shouldn’t just assume that all of them are evil and scary.
EDIT2: That’s the point I was getting at in the Star Trek thread by saying that political correctness assumes that all attitudes are worth being sensitive to. If cops giving children high fives to celebrate the weekend and show the students that they are there to help them makes people uncomfortable, then I don’t care and am not going to censor myself for the sake of people’s feelings regarding that issue.