@Jay can you understand the difference between "I disagree with your assessment, but to address the issue you see you can..." and "Wow, has political correctness really gone this far?" (first sentence!) and "the excessive race consciousness of many today"? I'm not saying what I'm saying because I disagree with you and agree with the OP (the truth is between those two), but because of the way you're going about this.

The extended editorial that you've edited into your answer is not helping. Answers need to focus on answering the question. You have now further decreased the answer-to-editorial ratio.

It is not censorship to uphold site guidelines. This has nothing to do with the specific opinions involved. I have deleted posts that I agree with but that aren't answers (or appropriate questions, as applicable). If you want to believe that the moderators are biased censors who are out to shut you down then that's up to you. Do note that we have mod teams to mitigate against one person's preferences having undo influence.

If you really think the mods are acting out of bias then you should raise the issue with SE. They and we take such accusations seriously.

Of course there is an argument to be made for the claim that political correctness has gone too far. And it can be simultaneously true with acknowledging the multiple existing problems with racism. There can be too much of something in one place, and not enough in another.

For my part, the way I see it, if someone is afraid to write because what they write might be offensive to someone, that's a problem right there.

I came late to this, but just to add my two-penn'orth & with no axe to grind either way. I am nearly 60, so went through my teens in the 70's, which saw race riots & a myriad other troubles. At the same time it saw the rise of the punk movement, which contrary to popular belief, was maybe the first time people had actually decided 'attitude' was more important than race or gender stereotyping.

I therefore grew up thinking, 'everyone from the generation before me is accidentally racist [if not intentionally], but some if not all of my generation have seen something different'.

Move forward 40 years: I've had conversations with several of my male gay friends & their partners or husbands [for balance I am a 'WASP' in everything but attitude, I fit all the wrong side of all profiling if you take my ethnic & cultural background to be capable of any 'open thinking'] & really, these days 'none of them are bothered'. I know that's a bit sweeping, but that's the long & short of it. They see very little active prejudice these days compared to their youth.

Conversely - & this is where I start to feel old - my niece & her wife feel, not that they must defend their position, but that they need to be far more specific in their pigeon-holing of what their relationship is.

They're in their early 20's, financially sound & with good jobs with a good if hardworking future.

They often feel the need, they say, to explain to people where they fit in the ever-expanding LGBTQ+ spectrum. They are now almost 'victim' to political correctness, rather than completely freed by it.

My older gay males friends all basically say… thank the f** we're too old to care any more; yeah, that's how it's become. They'll just have to learn top live with it.

I think that's rather sad.

[I tried to correct some typos, but ran out of time, apologies]

I, too, think that our current "victim culture" and readiness to cry "micro-aggression!" when anybody says anything that's not 100% what you wanted, and other such nonsense, has gone too far. And it's sad to watch the infighting in the queer community about who's not queer enough and stuff like that. I shake my head and sigh a lot.

None of that, however, has anything to do with answering questions on Writing. But I'm not optimistic about persuading Jay, so I'm done trying.