Political correctness is something that really winds me up.  Now don’t get me wrong, I am all for equal opportunities, when equality means stretching and challenging people in order to achieve their maximum potential, utilising creative methods that might deviate from convention.  I do not consider equality to mean that everybody must allowed to be the same.  In fact, that is just ridiculous. In suggesting such an ideal, we create a false notion that people are as programmable and interchangeable as robots, which is simply not true.  You may consider it to be possible, if you are a Darwinist/idealist because if you are, then the human race is undergoing a constant state of improvement.  One of the facets of Darwinism is (coupled with) the phrase coined by Herbert Spencer – “the survival of the fittest”.  If this were true, then a lot of us would not exist.  It is certainly not politically correct.

 
Anyway, I deviate from my point.  Political correctness irritates me, because it seems to have swung so far in the opposite direction, that it is beginning to rule out the majority.  This can often be a facade for a myriad of excuses.  For example, as the church, we might say that we should not use the internet for evangelistic or communicative purposes, because, in terms of political correctness, not everyone has access to the internet.  We are alienating the poor, the illiterate, the elderly and perhaps the disabled.  We forget, that we are missing the rest of the world.  So use the internet and then alternative methods, don’t rule it out just because not every single person uses it.

This is a very light-hearted example, but hopefully you see my point.  At best, this kind of ‘equality for the sake of something to say’, is nothing but deception.  Don’t be trapped by it.