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13106469, It's obvious
Posted by Lurkmode, Thu Dec-15-16 01:33 PM
>he makes both cases in this article:

He does more than that

>So... lemme get this straight... More than half of the country
>thinks it's a problem including people from BOTH parties (of
>the people who think it's a problem 66.666% are republican and
>33.333% are democrats)... And you're still trying to say that
>somehow we got it all wrong? Okayplayer.

"Since the early 1990s, politically correct has been the go-to phrase to whip up support from people who think social tolerance has become threatening, excessive or frivolous.

“Political correctness is killing our country,” Donald Trump tweeted. Ben Carson, when he was briefly the leading Republican candidate, told Fox’s Bill O’Reilly that political correctness was “destroying our nation.” Ted Cruz criticized President Obama’s policies toward ISIS by claiming that “political correctness is killing people.” Marco Rubio complained that the reason he didn’t discuss his faith in public was that he “had been conditioned by political correctness.” Jeb Bush joined the choir with “The political correctness of our country needs to be shattered.”

I call the 2nd paragraph getting it wrong."Killing our country","destroying our nation"and "killing people" PC is doing all that ? You agree with that ?

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>Do I even have to write anything here???
>

You could write about this

"This apocalyptic backlash against what seems like a relatively benign combination of good old-fashioned manners and simple sensitivity toward others stems from several factors, including a growing rage, fear and frustration among many Americans as the country continues to evolve into something different from what they are used to. Just as it did for their parents and grandparents. New technology can make us feel foolish, rapidly changing trends make us feel marginalized, and the eroding of our familiar and comforting traditions leaves us uncertain and uncomfortable. Every generation must deal with mourning the loss of its good ol’ days. It’s hard for many Americans to reconcile their romanticized fantasy of Main Street USA with today’s reality.The truth is that only 46% of children 18 and under live in a home with two heterosexual parents who are in their first marriage. In 1960, 73% did. But Mayberry isn’t coming back."

and this

"every political and social policy or tradition has examples of excess. We don’t define the value of a policy based on incidences that might seem extreme. We can point at the absurd behavior of zealots around all our most cherished values. We poke fun at “helicopter” parents for being overprotective of their children, but that doesn’t mean we want to erase safety laws and policies that protect kids."

Maybe a few words for this

"There is some evidence that it works. Research at Cornell University concluded that political correctness may aid the creativity of mixed-gender work teams."

It's several points that he makes in the article which you could address.