Some argue that the embarrassment that is political correctness, as it is now present in the United States, developed as a follow-up to the civil rights movements in the 1960's, and it is a necessary component in maintaining a comfortable atmosphere for minorities. Those individuals fail to comprehend that political correctness is leftist censorship, an infringement on the Bill of Rights, and, most importantly, that one cannot force the sensitivities required for such a comfort onto another without creating complications. Harsher and more obscure ways of expressing prejudice, the factor originally blamed for creating an uncomfortable situation for minorities, arise when speech is restricted, because society collects on their right of freedom of speech.
Our government acts with great hypocrisy when making provisions for politically correct language restrictions in the United States while it actively breaks them down for other nations as means of securing freedom. A new bill designed to set aside funding and efforts for fighting foreign web censorship was introduced to Congress in 2002; it would make the Internet "free" for such countries as China, Syria and Saudi Arabia, whose authoritative governments control access to information. The United States government has come up with tools to circumvent such censorship and reasons that the people of China, Syria and Saudi Arabia are responsible enough as a society to have access to all possible information, including the anti-government propaganda, which normally gets blocked (2). Meanwhile, textbook and library censorships occur regularly throughout the United States and speech codes take over the exchange of ideas in universities and public schools, as if civilians of a nation responsible enough to take ardent strides toward liberalism and democracy have to be told how to communicate domestically. .
Freedom of expression, aside from being a fundamental right of the individual in accordance to the Bill of Rights, is an essential tool for combating racism and promoting equality the correct way.