Download or read book How I Escaped Political Correctness, and You Can Too written by Loretta Breuning and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political correctness is biological. It meets our core mammalian needs for resources, status, and the safety of a herd. I learned to meet my mammalian needs in new ways instead of living in fear of PC gatekeepers. This book shows you how to feel safe when conformity surrounds you.You care about the greater good, but you want to define it for yourself. What if you disagree with the politically correct view? You fear ridicule, shunning and attack, so you tell yourself it¿s not worth it and find a way to conform. Until one day you can't.I was politically correct until the day I heard myself lie about a simple fact because the truth didn't sound progressive. I froze in the middle of a lecture to 150 students. Enough! I decided to take back my brain. I gave myself permission to see what I see and know what I know instead of living in fear. It cost me, but the benefits outweighed the costs. I transitioned and you can too.What do I mean by Political Correctness?I do not mean the hot-button dramas that fill the headlines. They are just tribal solidarity rituals. I mean the belief that we are suffering under a bad system.Political correctness trains you to feel victimized by bad guys running the bad system, and to fight them by following the leaders of political correctness. If you follow, you get to be one of the good guys and share in the rewards that these leaders control. If you don't follow, you are labelled a bad guy and excommunicated.This message is so pervasive that we take it for granted. But I saw that the good guys are not all good and the bad guys are not all bad. I tried to overlook the inconvenient facts because I feared excommunication. But when I had kids, I saw how harmful it is for children to be taught that they're powerless victims. I wanted them to believe in themselves instead of just following the lead of political correctness.