Political correctness only censors, not changes

The argument

Political correctness has no effect on the physical outcomes of matters as has no effective on what people truly think or do. It just makes the Left seem ridiculous in their intent to minimise offence and take it ‘too far’. As Robert Longley said; ‘Telling people that it is socially wrong for them to express their feelings and beliefs in certain was will not make those feelings and beliefs go away. Sexism, for example, will not end by simply referring to salesmen and saleswomen as ‘salespersons’. Also, referring to the homeless as ‘temporarily displaced’ will not create jobs or wipe out poverty.‘

Premises

Counter-arguments

Political correctness does have an impact on what people think because it changes what is regarded as an acceptable view. This unconsciously affects everybody and changes people's perceptions about what is and isn’t a disrespectful view or description of a someone.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] The premise asserts the absence of an effect that would be difficult to establish either way, and the counter names the mechanism it overlooks: what a society treats as sayable shapes what its members take to be respectable, which is a change in thinking and not only in wording. [Rejecting P2] The examples set up a standard nobody claims. Changing a job title was never offered as a cure for sexism, nor a euphemism as a jobs programme, so showing that a word does not by itself end a structural problem leaves the modest claim actually made for it untouched — that language marks and reinforces how people are regarded. The premise also sits oddly with the position it supports: holding that political correctness censors while changing nothing attributes to it both a real effect and a real cost, which is not neutrality.