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  • When it obscures truth, and mocks common sense. Other than that I usually like to laugh at it. This is only my own personal opinion and belief, but I believe in truth. When political correctness clouds the truth with its euphemism and sanitisation, I think it becomes inappropriate. At the same time, when political correctness obscures common-sense and leads into the realm of ridiculous, I find it very insulting to my intelligence - and I wouldn't be surprised if more people felt that way. Political correctness itself can come across very condescending and patronising, sanitising our intelligence, common sense and wit with a wool blanket. I'll give you an example: in my daughter's kindergarten they have been banned from the song 'baa baa black sheep'. Not only that, they can't use any other colour either. For a while they tried 'baa baa rainbow sheep', until the centre manager gave up and just banned the song altogether... This came about from a complaint from a parent that their child was using the word 'black'... A white parent. Most people I've met who are affected by a political correctness issue couldn't care less about it. Most of them laughed at it. By my observations, the ridiculous stuff comes from people not involved in the situation. Yes, there is genuine political correctness, and I respect that, but there is also a lot of cockamamy rubbish out there with no real reason or foundation.

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