Just be civil

The obsession with “PC culture” seems to come from those who enjoy slandering others and who wear their biases and prejudice like a badge of honor.

It’s not being PC to show humans that differ from you basic respect. That’s just common decency. It’s not demanding PC when people stand up for themselves in the face of slanderous speech. Some folks seem to have conflated grace and civility and basic human empathy with being “PC”.

If I don’t agree with or understand someone’s religious beliefs, does that give me a right to be unkind and attack them? No it doesn’t. I can hold my beliefs without being malicious to those to those with different ones. That’s civility.

Yes, our cultural landscape is changing. It always has and always will. I know that’s scary because things aren’t the way they were when you were a kid. This is equality; it takes nothing from you, only expands your circle if you let it. Perhaps it’s time to grow and see your countrymen as neighbors and friends and taxpaying members of your community and not “the other.” Maybe stop obsessing over the term PC and focus on empathy+civility?

Daniel Montague

Spokane