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I think that political correctness destroys your freedom of speech. CMV.

I am a person who loves freedom. Simply the idea of it. The only true freedom in todays world is in your own brain, sadly. I'm kind of okay with that, BUT I think you should also have the right to express any of your thoughts and not having to fear a punishment. I think especially now about so called 'political correctness', 'protecting' selfdeclared minorities from verbal abuse. In my opinion; if you as a free human being come to the conclusion that you want to insult this special person, ethnical group or gender, whatever, you must have the right to EXPRESS yourself. 

If you want to curtail your own speech in order to protect 'sensibilities' of others, that should be your choice, and only yours. CMV.

A little Edit to specify:
I am upset about laws that forbid bad speech about someone, or any group. I guess in every (western?)country you hava a court where trials are hold against people who said 'bad things' about others. 

In Germany, for example, it is forbidden to carry and posess nazi symbols. I am not a nazi and I acknownlege every crime the nazis commited. But in my eyes, if some poor guy there decides that for him Germans are better than the rest, so what. And he should be able to express himself without being punished, because, in my eyes, the freedom of the mind is the highest gift in the world, and nothing should prevent anybody to say anything he likes.

But especially the whole political correctness aspect about the freedom to express yourself upsets me. Example? If I was a male in a parliament and would say in front of the assembly: 'it is wrong to have gender quotas here', every paper the next week in my country would tell the masses what a bad and gender-discriminating person I am. That might be true. You must have the possibility to express your opinion without being called a racist publicly.

Other one: I decided to make a bad, maybe lame joke about nationality X. Why do I have to fear prosecution, if I, as a free human on this planet decided clearly minded that I wanted to insult this group? 

And especially: Who can prove that they are the legitimate people to decide whats offending and being punished and what's not? 

I hope you guys get my point, I apollogize for my bad English. Please CMV.
gpt
Any specific instances?  

Are you talking about something like Paula Dean?  Because she has the right to call people niggers; however, Food Network has the right to let her go because of that.  

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from taking responsibility for what you say, or freedom from backlash.  You have the right to say anything you want, just like people have the right to be offended.