Political Correctness | ...

My thoughts:

I think it's ridiculous that a whole bunch of completely separate causes have fallen under this catch-all umbrella term: PC.

You can't assume that the interests of a certain chunk of the population (say, women) are somehow tangibly connected to those of another group of people (school janitors who want to be called custodians, or people who aren't janitors who think that janitors should be called custodians, or people who view the reclaiming of the word "janitor" as a postive step towards re-empowering the working class by giving them control over the means of social production which supposedly keep them in the chains of economic fealty to the bourgeoisie).  People see political correctness as a ravaging, all-consuming beast, when actually it's a hodge-podge of disparate ideas, some worthwhile, some absolute bullshit, that have been lumped together for God knows what reason.

The homogenization of an amazingly vast array of people, causes, interests and concerns into one abstract, mysterious and confusing force (political correctness) is far scarier to me than either the censorship that some people feel political correctness inspires or the damage that some people feel is caused by people who disregard political correctness entirely.

Citizen Fish have a great song called "PC" that sums it all up perfectly, but I'll be damned if I can find the lyrics right now.