Almost every morning on the news, especially on CNN, there is coverage of something someone said that’s supposedly offensive, and so they say (or show) what the person said, and then they have a big panel discussion about it to teach everyone the ever-evolving rules of political correctness regarding what is and what is not acceptable to say, and all the double-standards about who is and who is not allowed to say what stuff.* But does this really go far enough? I think people would learn far better what they’re not allowed to say if they were pilloried literally, rather than figuratively, for what they said.
And what better way to do this than to put them in the Political Correctness Pillory? It would be a regular pillory like from Puritan times, and the person would have the offending remark they said printed on a poster that they wear around their neck so that everyone could clearly see what it was they said that they’re being punished for, and that this very same punishment will befall anyone else who says this kind of thing. And everyone else could get in on the fun, punishing the dastardly sayer of whatever nefarious sentence, phrase, or term was uttered. It’s just the right thing to do. (At the very least, CNN could create a graphic of the person in question with their head Photoshopped into a pillory, and with the thing they said on a sign hung around their neck.)
* (It might be easier if everyone was treated equally, but I guess then they wouldn’t get to have fun with their panel discussions.)
