It is sad that not using ethnic slurs has fallen into the province of “political correctness.” Not using these words should simply be “good manners.”
That being said, I think that PC has officially gone insane.
PC states that Nativity scenes might be offensive and have to be taken down. Sometimes PC gets so bonkers that apartment complexes ban the flying of any flag, including the American one in America, because the flag might “offend” someone. I think that when it reached the last stage it went from bonkers to clinically insane and needing to be sedated.
Political correctness is a good concept but it has been taken too far.
I certainly do not like being called “mudperson,” “Gyppo,“sand nigger,” and others for my people and would like manners to say that these are incorrect along with “nigger,” “cracker,” “spic,” and all the rest. Manners, however, have gone by the wayside and these terms, all of them and more, are tossed around freely. The people who say such things could not give two squirts about PC people clucking their tongues at them.
A kicker with political correctness: the bigoted slurs are not stopped by political correctness: it does not do its job. I cannot tell you how many times I have been called something like that and the last time was, oh, 3–4 days ago. So, not only has it gone insane, when it comes to ethnic slurs it bucks up against Freedom of Speech and loses.
All it seems to be being used for is to find ways for more people to be offended by more thing while people who do not care about offending people do not pay it any heed. PC is becoming more and more convoluted as the PC crowd turns itself inside out trying to not “offend” anyone while the people who are the kinds to offend people do not care.