Today I was reflecting whether political correctness and also religiousness should be banned or avoided. Because I always hold the idea that political correctness -as everything is a ''social sin''- the fact that you need to imitate your vocabulary to do not say ''pussy'', ''coon'', ''nigger'', because they are all derogatory terms. And when it comes to religion the idea that you can not say something because will affect certain religious person and so one, even though what they are referring to are just symbols and not more than that (Isn't a religion more than its simbols?).
I don't want to be a demagogue and just talk things that I don't really believe in.
I believe in Jesus Christ, and everyone knows and everyone think that I am a religious person because of that. I don't like the little for many reasons that I can write later.
Once I experienced that a friend of mine who is not very religious said ''Holy shit'' near to me and he apologized after. I never asked him to be super respectful of to be polite in his manners, but his principle of respect was very noticeable and I was very amused by his attitude. Another time another friend of mine said 'Holy shit'' and it didn't bothered her even for a mile of second... And of course, I felt that was very dismissive by her.
I never asked someone to be respectful, but I highly appreciate when it happens, because it has something to say about the person him-herself not about my beliefs.
But I am writing this to talk about this ''respect towards beliefs'' itself.
But what I came to argue with myself is whether this ''respect towards beliefs'' is just an ''ego desire'' or not. Let's say that religious people especially -and look that I really emphasize it- since we so often assume that people decide to their religion due their personal experience of enlightenment, right?
And suddenly they feel a lot of affection and devotion to symbols that meaningfull make them remember that spiritual encounter.
But them they forget that all the one thousand people whom live around them didn't have the same enlightenment and they do not feel any respect or any connection to the symbols.
But them -still- the religious people will make them to feel bad for ''do not respecting'' something. Something that they never had to respect because they did not have any spiritual enlightenment!
Isn't that at least selfish?
In my opinion it really is! But well, I might confess that I am still selfish to some extent even though I humanly try to do not be.
Now talking about political correctness, I am really concerned towards sexist and racist coments. Because I know that is a slippery slope: in one hand, correcting that jokes, you can create a totalitarian perception of what is a ''social sin or not'' (and that is why I think that Religion and Political Correctness are more similar than what people may think); while in another hand you see that people need education when they do this comments, because if they really mean it, it is very alarming for this society.
I don't lie here. I also feel bothered by certain sexist, racist and all this ''ist''s jokes that exists. But I feel more worried when it is not a joke, and people really mean those things.
I've heard this last weak from a nurse:
''Yeah, you know... I have to work in a hospital so late in the night because this young people who drink a lot faint and I need to recover them. There are EVEN young ladies among then.''
Really? I wish that it was a joke. I just wish that.
With political correctness or not, with racist, sexist jokes or not, I just hope the society becomes aware of that things and do not get lost in being picky and pointing out ''social sins''. Because it is a unseless as caring for the icing in the cake but do not change the flavor if the cake itself. I just hope that the society have a real development and education to be aware that certain things are not okay: lack of education is not funny!
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