I feel like the more we continue to label and divide people into these 'groups', the more issues we are going to have with race.
Identifying someone based on their race, gender, etc only serves to heighten the divides between people. Furthermore, it attempts to favor groups in the workplace or in the university simply because of their superficial characteristics, which ultimately means someone else is losing the zero sum game.
Political correctness IMO is just another one of these nasty collectivist ideas that, like racism attempts to divide and harm relations between people in the US. We are all Americans and should all be judged based on our actions, not external things we have no control over. We should strive towards a society with no laws restricting the freedoms of any group, we are getting very close to this, so therefor, opportunity will be available to all.
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I pretty much agree here. I don't think it necessarily increases "racism" (we are becoming a less racist nation by the day) but I do think it makes more of a polarized and divided nation which never does us any good.
