POLITICAL CORRECTION AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

INTRODUCTION

It may seem like a banal topic; However, it is not a simple issue, how can we teach or talk to children
about the line between freedom of expression and being politically correct? It can be confusing. Freedom
of expression is one of the Human Rights that guarantees the possibility of being able to express
opinions without suffering censorship. Obviously, this does not imply that one can say everything that
comes to mind, so there are limitations that cannot be ignored such as offending or defame a person.

BODY

1. POLITICALLY CORRECT VERSUS FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Although the politically correct today addresses the use of expressions that lead to avoiding differences, it
was not always like that. The beginning of the idea that something said or done is "politically correct"
dates back to the 1980s and was born as a way to specifically protect minorities. Therefore, a person
who acts politically correctly is one who takes into account the values of all human groups and avoids
discrimination.

Regarding freedom of expression and how it is about what is described as "politically correct", we have a
thin line, but clear: the respect and the limits of that right. Although this ensures the right to seek, receive
and impart one's own thought, this same right collides with the limits related to private life, intimacy,
honor and morals.

2. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM OF BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT?

Political correctness has gotten out of hand. This has made the care and effort not to offend reach limits,
to say the least, exaggerated. There is no one who defines exactly what things are politically correct.
They depend on a context and a particular moment. It is not written and it is important that it remains that
way because it makes you believe that you are acting freely.

In this sense, the politically correct works as a system of correction, at the same time that it uncovers
layers of serious tolerance and makes visible the problems of the social structure.

CONCLUSION

 We are convinced that freedom of expression is never an absolute right, but an aspiration.
Therefore, it ceases to be a right when it damages something that we all consider something
intimate and valuable.
 However, we must support freedom of expression, but setting limits so as not to discredit the
integrity of people, these limits go hand in hand with education and the values of the formation of
the person.