[Margaret Pilkington]

I don't hate you for having a view...everyone is entitled to their opinion......and there are many differing opinions.
I agree to some of the things you say, but I do think that political correctness stilts some relationships and prevents people from sometimes saying what they really mean. Calling a spade a spade. If you say exactly what you mean then no-one is in any doubt about what you have said....pussyfooting about, and trying not to cause offence to anyone gets in the way of some messages.
We have to be able to put our point across eloquently, sometimes this will cause offence because people have become more sensitised to what they perceive as slights...when in actual fact they are not at all.
Personally I prefer people who tell it like it is. The truth is the truth...and sometimes the truth is painful.