Political Correctness

Connor Rose
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read

Many people, most often on the political right, rage against the so called scourge of “political correctness”. More often than not these rants are directed at millennials who are no longer tolerating the bigoted views of the past generations. We are told we “can’t take a joke” “we are to sensitive” “want a safe space”. These claims are nothing short of nonsense. We are fully capable of joking around, we however don’t require bigoted and hateful stereotypes to make us laugh. The claims that we are sensitive is just as ridiculous, we as a generation are standing up and fighting against oppression and hate in unprecedented numbers. Our generation are fighting a new battle, one that is almost completely unique to us. We were born as the world was undergoing rapid changes. We were born as many households were first getting personal computers, as the internet was born. As we came of age the world was no longer the small social circles that had dominated the lives of our predecessors. We can form tight personal bonds with people on the other side of the world, people we will likely never meet. With this intense generational development we see the world in a way our parents and grandparents will struggle to understand. We are introduced to cultures firsthand that baby boomers would know only from vague news stories and tales of terrorists from the east. Where our uncles and grandparents tell jokes mocking these foreign cultures, we understand that jokes like that do nothing but perpetuate the hate and bigotry that plague our world. We are not “politically correct” we merely know that we must do better than this world.