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Undated: Empathy is at the heart of what it means to be human. It’s a foundation for acting ethically, for good relationships of many kinds, for loving well, and for professional success. And it’s key to preventing bullying and many other forms of cruelty.
Empathy begins with the capacity to take another perspective, to walk in another’s shoes. But it is not just that capacity. Salespeople, politicians, actors and marketers are often very skilled at taking other perspectives but they may not care about others. Con men and torturers take other perspectives so they can exploit people’s weaknesses. Empathy includes valuing other perspectives and people. It’s about perspective-taking and compassion.
https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/resources-for-families/5-tips-cultivating-empathy
Undated: The term political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated PC) is used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.[1][2][3][4][5] Since the late 1980s, the term has come to refer to avoiding language or behavior that can be seen as excluding, marginalizing, or insulting groups of people considered disadvantaged or discriminated against, especially groups defined by sex or race.
Commentators on the political left contend that conservatives use the concept of political correctness to downplay and divert attention from substantively discriminatory behavior against disadvantaged groups.[20][23][24] They also argue that the political right enforces its own forms of political correctness to suppress criticism of its favored constituencies and ideologies.[25][26][27] In the United States the term has played a major role in the 'culture war' between liberals and conservatives.[28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
-- 2014 --
November 5: Political correctness isn’t about being sensitive, it isn’t avoiding what you really mean, and it isn’t a distraction.
It’s about putting others’ humanity on the same level as your own.
It’s about being a decent person.
https://shoutoutjmu.com/2014/11/05/pc-political-correctness-or-personal-compassion/
-- 2015 --
September 23: A seemingly exasperated Donald Trump announced on Wednesday, "I'm so tired of this politically correct crap," telling a crowd of South Carolina business leaders that he's still the straight-talking, shoot-from-the-hip kind of guy that surged to the top of the polls this summer.
The Republican presidential candidate is suffering a bit of a slump, due to some slippage in the polls, a lackluster debate performance, and another round of negative headlines due to his refusal to apologize for not correcting a questioner at a New Hampshire town hall who insisted President Obama is a Muslim and not an American.
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/donald-trump-politically-correct-crap-213988
-- 2016 --
April 10: ‘No more political correctness’ for Trump supporters
Donald Trump’s inflammatory statements about Mexican immigrants, Muslim refugees and women who get abortions may eventually be his campaign’s undoing, some analysts say. But don’t tell that to the many supporters such as Titus Kottke, attracted to the Republican front-runner specifically because he shoots from the lip.
“No more political correctness,” said Kottke, 22, a cattle trucker and construction worker from Athens, Wisconsin, who waited hours last weekend to see the candidate in a line stretching the length of a shopping mall.
Trump is “not scared to offend people,” Kottke said. He agrees with some of the views Trump expresses but likes the fact that the candidate shows the confidence to reject the dogma of political correctness. That “takes away your freedom of speech, pretty much. You can’t say anything.”
For years, conservatives have decried political correctness as a scourge of orthodox beliefs and language, imposed by liberals, that keeps people from voicing uncomfortable truths.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/no-more-political-correctness-for-trump-supporters
July 19: Political Correctness Is An Absolute Must
The Republican Convention has barely begun, and the party has already made clear its primary political foe. Of course potshots will be taken at the “mainstream media,” liberals and Hillary Clinton. But what did several of last night’s convention speakers—from Duck Dynasty‘s Willie Robertson to Real World‘s Sean Duffy—regard as the real enemy? Political correctness.
You might have heard: America is plagued by “political correctness run amok.” We were told this by Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, when he tried to defend his old boss for tweeting an anti-Semitic Internet meme depicting a Star of David atop a pile of cash. The origins of that meme were recently discovered to be a message board of neo-Nazis and white supremacists who presumably agree with Lewandowski. After all, they titled their message board, “Politically Incorrect.”
We were told by Republicans, after the hideous, hate-fueled mass shooting by an ISIS-idolizing lunatic in Orlando, easy access to guns was not even partly to blame. Then what was? Political correctness! According to the logic of a top NRA official, who was widely parroted by Republican lawmakers, “the Obama administration’s political correctness prevented anything from being done” about the shooter’s racist ramblings.
When the elephant ate its own tail, and members of his own party panned Trump for exploiting the tragedy with offensive and egomaniacal tweets, we were told the criticism was misplaced. The real culprit? “We can’t afford to be politically correct anymore,” said Trump.
Remember his response to Fox host Megyn Kelly when she asked him about his temperament after calling some women “dogs” and “fat pigs”? It was: “I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct.” After being skewered by all sides for racist comments about a federal judge? “We have to stop being so politically correct in this country.”
If you’re like many Americans, you might have been persuaded political correctness is one of our country’s primary problems. Trump badly wants you to believe this, but you’d be wrong to do so. Trump is effectively positioning himself as the anti-PC candidate. Whereas Hillary Clinton thinks and speaks in the strategic—and sometimes subtle—language of diplomacy, Trump explicitly proposes himself as undiplomatic and politically incorrect. In doing so, he is cheapening and polarizing our political debates and, more important, he is making our country less safe.
http://time.com/4405217/trump-political-correctness-obama/
August 12: Empathy vs Political Correctness
What is the difference between political correctness and empathy? Political correctness became a disparaging term in the 1970’s and has been used as a way to dismiss ideas that someone might not agree with or care for. Accusations of political correctness have been used to justify not considering something, discrediting it and rationalizing why it does not have merit. When someone labels or judges something to be “politically correct”, it often leads to the person not even acknowledging or considering the ideas, concepts or experience that was labeled, and therefore shuts down any discussion and engagement. But is calling something politically correct just an excuse to be discriminatory or offensive; to not have to care about someone else’s ideas, thinking or experience or walk in someone else’s shoes? Don’t we need to be open, able to hear each other and care about the opinions or ideas, especially those, that we don’t agree with, in order to among other things, avoid “group think”, function in society, have the social intelligence requisite for caring for others and to have a world in which we can all live and thrive together peacefully.
What is wrong with wanting to care about other people’s feelings and what might be hurtful or offensive to them? Why would we challenge, in a civil society, the need to respect the boundaries of others, as we would want them to do for us? Since when is empathy a bad thing, such that we are free to call it ‘politically incorrect”? Why is this an adversarial or divisive concept? Isn’t this the heart of empathy; caring about, being interested in and making room for the experience of others? On the other hand, can the desire for people to care about our feelings go overboard? Can we be too rigid or sensitive to how someone expresses opposing view points or concepts, that we constrain open communication and sharing? And if we are too demanding or sensitive in our need to have our feelings respected, can this lead to an empathetic person getting tied up in knots and making connection more closed, rather than more open. Or even worse, can this lead some people to use this as an excuse to just disengage completely or not engage at all? Is there a happy medium where we empathize with the needs of others, but at the same time forgive when someone inadvertently trespasses on our feelings?
https://www.changeforlivingcounseling.org/empathy-vs-political-correctness/
November 22: Prejudice, "Political Correctness", and the Normalization of Donald Trump
https://medium.com/@juliaserano/prejudice-political-correctness-and-the-normalization-of-donald-trump-28c563154e48
November 30: Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy
For 25 years, invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been a favourite tactic of the right – and Donald Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/political-correctness-how-the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump
-- 2018 --
October 25: Political Correctness vs. Inclusion: What’s the Difference?
... if we say whatever we want without restraint, not only could it become a legal issue, but we lose the ability to have empathy, to think before we speak, and a host of other skills that are critical to a functioning society.
But there is another option, and that option is inclusion.
Inclusion differs from political correctness in many ways. For one, when you say something PC, it’s often because you feel that is what is expected of you or you’ve been told to. In other words, being PC comes from external pressures. Now let me be clear that I do believe we need some external societal pressures to be civil and live as a group. Without those pressures we become emboldened to give in to some of the baser parts of our humanity, and that is the seed of tragic events like genocide.
... inclusion is more valuable than political correctness. When you say something inclusive, you do so because you want everyone in your team or society to have a voice. For example, if you have a team with ten U.S. American members and one Mexican member, due to the number imbalance on the team, language barriers, and other issues it would be easy for the Mexican perspective to be lost. When you practice inclusion on that team you might say good morning in English and Spanish. You might take pauses every five to ten minutes to check in and clarify anything that non-native English speaker missed. You ensure that the Mexican team member’s feedback and ideas are considered, and you watch out for “majority always rules” on your team.
This is not political correctness. This is a value driven from the inside. Inclusion is a belief that everyone counts, and that the best ideas come from varied sources.
https://www.highroaders.com/blog/political-correctness-vs-inclusion-whats-the-difference/
October 30: The dangerous consequences of Trump's all-out assault on political correctness
When Donald Trump ran for president, one of the core pillars of his pitch to the voting public was this: Political correctness is a cancer eating away at the body politic.
"We have to straighten out our country, we have to make our country great again, and we need energy and enthusiasm," Trump said during an appearance on "Meet the Press" in August 2015. "And this political correctness is just absolutely killing us as a country. You can't say anything. Anything you say today, they'll find a reason why it's not good."
People responded -- big time. The idea that liberals and/or the elites had made it so that no one could say what they thought, for fear of being labeled intolerant or un-enlightened, was a powerful one in the very communities that Trump was appealing to: Whites watching the society and culture they had grown up with change faster and in ways that, in some cases, made them deeply uncomfortable.
The problem with Trump's assault on political correctness is that he took it so far that he clearly emboldened not only those lurking in the shadows to bring their hate speech into the light of day, but also lowered the overall bar for what is considered acceptable discourse among politicians and other leaders in the country.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/politics/donald-trump-hate-speech-anti-semitism-steve-king-kevin-mccarthy/index.html
December 19: Warning To Democrats: Most Americans Against U.S. Getting More Politically Correct
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/19/677346260/warning-to-democrats-most-americans-against-u-s-getting-more-politically-correct
-- 2019 --
January 2: Bolsonaro: Brazil has been 'liberated from socialism, political correctness'
The newly inaugurated president, who openly admires Brazil's previous military dictatorship, promised to adhere to democratic norms.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/bolsonaro-brazil-has-been-liberated-socialism-political-correctness-n953736
March 17: Trump Wants Jeanine Pirro and Her Islamophobia Back on the Air
Fox News has suspended host Jeanine Pirro over Islamophobic comments she made during last week’s broadcast of Justice with Judge Jeanine, which did not air on Saturday night. Fox News has not publicly confirmed the suspension, but a source told CNN that the network had indeed benched the popular host. It is not clear how long the suspension will last, or whether anxious advertisers will continue to support the program, or if Trump’s subsequent attacks on the network will intensify — and what that could mean to his and the network’s shared base.
In her last show, Pirro questioned the patriotism of Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar, one of the two first Muslim women to be elected to Congress last November. Pirro asked viewers to “think about” how Omar wears a hijab before suggesting that Omar’s belief in Islam was incompatible with being a loyal American. Implying that Muslims are inherently un-American is hardly new territory for right-wing pundits, but in this case Pirro’s retread didn’t just earn widespread criticism, but a rare public rebuke from her network. One day later, Fox News said it “strongly condemned” Pirro’s comments and that it had “addressed the matter with her directly.” By then, Pirro had already tried to backtrack after being publicly called out by a Muslim colleague at the network. She was just asking questions, she claimed.
Pirro’s absence from the airwaves on Saturday certainly caught the attention of her biggest fan, the president of the United States. On Sunday morning, Trump published a thread of tweets demanding she be reinstated and accusing Fox News of succumbing to political correctness.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/trump-wants-jeanine-pirro-and-her-islamophobia-back-on-the-air.html
-- 2020 --
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