I'm taking a Political Science class online. My teacher is a complete Limbaugh head and thinks the United States will be destroyed by 2050 because of political correctness. I was very polite in the post and asked what exactly he meant by political correctness. I explained that I thought it meant using non-offensive language. He responded bring up Don Imus (of course). In my next reply, I went all over the place as you will see and used the word, "nigger". I figured it was a debate on free speech and that to use "the N word" would be hypocritical of me. Now that I think about it, they kick people out of school for things like that. I'm really worried about it, even though, in the long run, I don't care. Probably at worse it is just a suspension. Anyway here is my response:


Thank you, that's a good example. For some reason, when I originally
was asking, I could only think of Harvard University President Lawrence
Summers.

I have an example that might get your goat. At my work, a person got
written up for telling blond jokes. The person, who heard the joke,
wasn't blond, but thought it was offensive to blonds.

I do feel that our liberties are someone on hold while at work. Free
speech is gone. Privacy is invaded with drug testing (for jobs that do
not involve others' safety). There are also cases where people are
fired for actions while not at work as well. The free market is
becoming the new government with the help of our current government as
well. It was ultimately the free market that fired Imus, not the
government.

I do believe that people should say what they want at work as long as
the person offended is able to respond as they want as well. However, I
must admit, a restriction of offensiveness at work has been nice.

An extreme example at my work (as a dealer) again is when a co-worker
was dealing to a high limit player that was losing. The player
repeatedly called her a "nigger". If she responded "appropriately", she
would have probably suffered a "write-up" or been fired. Also, an
employee saying this word would surely be fired. In this case, they
simply took the dealer off the game and gave him a new, white dealer.