And now - a surprisingly calm, considered and moderate reply from Dave!
Yes, political correctness is a little daft. It can be explained when it is considered in terms of broadly-well-meaning people who aren't all that ineffectual and have risen past their level of competence within social organisations - they thus feel the need to be seen 'doing things' (so that their actual ineptness isn't exposed) but aren't 100% sure what, so they go with the least offensive-seeming option.
It should be noted that it could be worse. There are, after all, quite a lot of countries out there that still shoot people for using certain words (like "political criticism" if you live in North Korea).
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Yes, political correctness is a little daft. It can be explained when it is considered in terms of broadly-well-meaning people who aren't all that ineffectual and have risen past their level of competence within social organisations - they thus feel the need to be seen 'doing things' (so that their actual ineptness isn't exposed) but aren't 100% sure what, so they go with the least offensive-seeming option.
It should be noted that it could be worse. There are, after all, quite a lot of countries out there that still shoot people for using certain words (like "political criticism" if you live in North Korea).