alexandraerin

I like Avenue Q, but I'm growing to hate that song because it's always thrown into discussions like this, and it's usually used as an excuse not to do shit about racism and more particularly for people not to examine themselves for racist behaviors they may not even be aware of.

Yes, everybody harbors racist attitudes... and no, racism will probably never be removed from human society without a drastic reordering of the same... so, how is that a signal that we should all relax and forget about it? Everyone's more than a little bit mortal, but that doesn't mean we stop eating and start walking off curbs without waiting for a gap in traffic.

"Everyone stop being so P.C." is such a bullshit answer to anything, because "political correctness" is a bullshit concept. The phrase only exists so that politicians (and, for some bizarre reason, Shania Twain) can get ovations for saying they're not going to be it. It's a phrase made to satirize and deride attempts at sensitivity and... quite often... actual correctness. Nobody actually believes in being politically correct... the people who are accused of it are simply making a stance as to what they believe to be actually correct... radical shit like treating human beings as fucking human beings.