diff --git a/education/english/ENGL2010/Engl2010 Writing Project.md b/education/english/ENGL2010/Engl2010 Writing Project.md index 73e9fd6..1d3ff60 100644 --- a/education/english/ENGL2010/Engl2010 Writing Project.md +++ b/education/english/ENGL2010/Engl2010 Writing Project.md @@ -102,4 +102,7 @@ - Extreme political correctness can often revolve around morally superficial applications of reasonable norms, taken to an extreme - Political correctness concerns offense and sensibilities, not the objective interests of everyone involved. - There's an increasing tendency to reject government terms like "illegal alien" in favor of "undocumented immigrant" with the implication that refusing to do so implies reactionary or hateful views. -- One example of political correctness backfiring is when "sensitive" material is removed from coursework to avoid upsetting students. \ No newline at end of file +- One example of political correctness backfiring is when "sensitive" material is removed from coursework to avoid upsetting students. +- This is shown with affirmative action causing problems and not having the intended affect +- We want to avoid "being gored on either horn" +- Enforcing political correctness can lead to widespread "preference falsification", in which what people believe in private is detached from what is spoken in public \ No newline at end of file