EDIT: This is taking too long, I'm tl;dr-ing it:

In the "What do you hate?" thread, Darkly (resident black guy and head ASB Mod, for you newbies) listed off a bunch of things he hates. One of them surprised me:

Quote Originally Posted by DarkestLight View Post
I hate most laws actually that base themselves on arbitrary numbers becasue the human race is inadequate in being able to disseminate and analyze a single persons's metabolic functions aside from everyone else to establish if a crime was committed-and instead have to falsify specific guidelines that everyone need follow when everyone is NOT the fucking same!
In a nutshell, Darkly is telling political correctness - a principle that was basically brought about to HELP minorities like him - to go fuck itself because it's getting in the way of actual facts, e.g. "Different races and genders have different strengths and weaknesses due to divergent evolutionary paths, cultural acceptance/restriction, diet, fitness, rate and speed of civil progress, etc etc etc.".

And it's true: Studies have been conducted on different groups of people and tests have been administered, and they suggest that there ARE factual differences between people. One test I remember causing a particularly big riot was one that showed whites getting steady 130's and higher on IQ tests while blacks struggled to hit 120.

Is this offensive? No. Science does not offend, or discriminate. It simply looks for facts...

Tell that to the poor guys who ran the test and were basically lynched by the media when they revealed their results, being called intolerant and insensitive and basically just being mobbed by angry idiots and liberals.

Now why am I posting this here? Just to rant? Not really. It's just that I've noticed something on the Internet:

I'm not alone. Darkly isn't alone either. I see people all over the big sites I frequent - Youtube, dA, 4chan, Facebook, Twitter... It seems pretty much anything that could be seen as 'offensive' (which is basically everything nowadays) has its fair share of people saying "I'm black/female/a robot and I don't care. Everyone's different. Stop getting mad at stupid shit." That's great to know. Seeing people be rational is awesome.

...So, that being the case, why does everyone still act like there's a piano dangling over their head every time the issue of political correctness comes up? If so many of us think it's a bullshit retarded philosophy (According to Wikipedia, its modern use actually began satirically!), why are we all still lying through our teeth about it in public? Why do we keep nodding and going along with what we know is stupid and wrong and ultimately detrimental to our progress, and what can we do to fix it?