Brianna+C’s+2016+OpEd+Article

Politically Correct? Who Cares!

A school principal in Oregon thinks PB&J sandwiches are racist. Swedes refuse to use the “gender-discriminatory” pronouns of his or her and have combined them into one pronoun, his/her. People don’t own pets, they simply guard them. Christmas break is not Christmas break, but simply a break that occurs in the winter and happens to annually respect a widely celebrated holiday that Americans enjoy based on no particular religious affiliation.

WAKE UP! What is becoming of the world? If the trend of politically correctness continues for much longer, our dictionaries will be shrunken to the size of the Newspeak Dictionary in 1984.

NEWSFLASH people, you will never be able to please everybody listening so get over it! People unnecessarily obsess over every word that comes out of their mouths because they don’t want to sound racist or offensive in any way. Well let me tell you that this will never ever be possible unless we lose the basic freedoms of speech and press that so foundationally built this nation. If we continue to limit the “acceptable” language in regards to people’s individuality or opinions, there will be no opinions left in the world to disagree with. Remember F 451* when everything had to be agreeable which resulted in no substance, no joy, no real understanding. We must not let this happen! Passionately and proudly defend your ideas and opinions when they are challenged. There will always be someone who disagrees or dislikes you because of your ideas. Deal with it. We all have to.

Granted there is no reason to take advantage of this and slander people, but observations about the color of one’s skin is not racist. Celebrating Christmas is not discriminatory of other religions. And eating a PB&J sandwich does not symbolize “white supremacy.”

Attention people of the world: please get over your damn selves. Not everything has some hidden meaning. If you think so then please stop being so selfish. The world does not revolve around you. If you really get offended because of something so asinine as a picky child eating a PBJ then please see a psychologist and stop spreading your selfish, annoying, whiny, and frankly pathetic sensitivity to the sensible people around you.