Florida Gulf Coast University Issues Bans for Political Correctness

I generally think of the term “Political Correctness” as code for “I’ve lost the power to enforce my own will, and those bad nasty people who have gained the power to enforce their will have become ‘Politically Correct’.”

So, while I don’t necessarily automatically dismiss people who use the term, I do automatically suspect that the deep meaning of what they say might boil down to “The Sky is Falling, and can’t get up.”

Which is not to say that the sky never falls. It’s just that most of the time it’s someone’s own personal sky.

Now, I DO get that probably the majority — the majoritarian power holders — really do think this particular sky is important. But I doubt that Jewish, Muslim, or Pagan believers feel a lot of attachment to that sky. And I think they also understand that this particular use of the term “Political Correctness” is a blatant attempt to dismiss how they feel.

My own belief is, Christians who are most up in arms about this particular example of “Political Correctness,” happily and actively participate in the materialism that has already turned the Xmas holidays into a sacrilege. Seems to me we’d all be better off if we did something about that first, before we turn our animus on Florida Gulf Coast U.

I can’t say that I disagree if this is a public institution. Just because Christianity is the majority religion does not mean that decorations for Christmas should dominate all common areas.
Note that there does not seem to be a ban on non-common spaces so faculty and students are free to decorate their own areas as desired.

One sort of intolerance has been substituted for another form of intolerance, and the latter form is ending up being far more destructive than the former.

Once upon a time, it was only the small-minded and irritatingly bigoted who were the intolerant louts, persons who could be easily dismissed for their intolerance and bigotry much like one dismisses other lunatics one might encounter along the way. Now, all of society is intolerant of any potential or conceivable display of anything other than plain vanilla institutional gray and utterly atheist mundane. Personally, I wouldn’t shed a single tear if I were never again assailed by the sights, sounds, traditions and stories of various mythical assertions. To me, they’re all fictional and mildly humorous in their various absurdities.

However, living in a country of freedom does not mean living in a country in which nobody is offended. In fact, nearly everyone should feel at least slightly offended in some way every moment of every day when living in a country of freedom, and should celebrate that fact, not act to suppress it. Otherwise, we are part of the problem, oppression, rather than participating in a society of freedom. Not only are “those other people” free to be who they are, which may be irritating and/or offensive to you, you are free to be who you are, which is probably irritating and/or offensive to someone or everyone else. Tolerance is realizing that the joyful existence of those irritants means everyone is completely free to be joyfully irritating.

the only reason political correctness came about is to control peoples way of thinking, to create mindless robots.

What total and utter rot. It’s like some local councils here in the UK who have completely lost the plot and even attempted to changed the name of Christmas just in case they offend certain religious immigrant communities who, incidentally, say they are not in the least bit offended! Madness. As a footnote, I am not in the least bit racist but the UK is OUR country and I fail to see why we should have to change our ways and traditions to suit other cultures living here – especially when it’s not their idea and they are quite happy with our quirky British ways and seem as equally baffled by the “do-gooders” and so-called “political correctness” as we native Brits are!

I am a member of a religion which doesn’t celebrate Christmas, and may i say that I agree that this ban is ridiculous indeed!

[...] Florida Gulf State University issues bans for political correctness. [...]