Essay On Political Correctness

1160 Words5 Pages
“The Problem with Political Correctness” Although trying to preserve people’s feelings is undoubtedly a good thing, political correctness has created this all encompassing idea that feelings are all important. In many cases explored later in this essay, feelings are preferred over reality and objective fact. Fat pride movements are evidence of the idea of feelings over reality. Fat pride movements essentially are just there to make fat people feel better about being fat. People don’t want to accept the truth that being obese is unhealthy. They just want to feel good about themselves even if they are harboring massive amounts of unhealthy excess body weight that is undeniably bad for their health. But no, feelings reign supreme. One prominent fat acceptance figure, Virgie Tovar said the following “People have this idea that fatness and health are in the same conversation, when in fact they…show more content…
That is all well and good, but for progress to be made, people who are offended by anyone who has a different view from their own, are going to have to be offended because the world is full of different views. People have to work together for change. We can't work together when those offended completely close themselves off to a different way of thinking. All throughout history it has become very evident that working together is the key to change and success. Helen Keller says “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” This is true in both respects of compromise between two groups and the domination of one certain idea. If many people who are closed minded and believe only one thing come together, wars can start. Thats why we had the Crusades. Compromise, like the Treaty of Paris, can still affect us to this today. It ended the War and established the United States
Show More
Related

  • Use Of Satire In A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift

    1834 Words  | 8 Pages

    concept. Though satire was not unheard of and Swift was already well known for his caustic writing, neither of these things prevented people from across Ireland and the rest of Europe from being shocked and horrified upon reading this unique essay. The essay begins with the author lamenting the fate of all of the poverty-stricken citizens of Ireland. During this time period, Ireland was suffering while much of the rest of Europe prospered. Ireland received no assistance from the other countries as

    Read More

  • Language Pedagogy

    1814 Words  | 8 Pages

    post process (genre) writing approaches. The product approach This approach aimed to underline form and syntax and the stress was on rhetorical drills (Silva, 1990).It encourages students to produce an end product which may be likened to a model essay normally provided by teachers. The main aim of the approach is to provide some linguistic knowledge to language students. It mainly highlighted sentence structures as a support for the grammar class. Based on this approach also known as ‘Models Approach’

    Read More

More about Essay On Political Correctness

Open Document