Can you be so focused on inclusivity that it results in more division and hate?

I think it has become far easier to label something as "being PC" than to intelligently address whatever the situation may be. Calling everything "PC" is just a means to ignore and even denigrate a particular problem.
Even this thread is trying to lump a wide variety of problems/situations under one big label, being "PC." Rather than doing that, why not attempt to address each one separately?

Nope, it's not you. I feel the same way. The pendulum has swung way too far to the left that anytime I hear or see someone raging against it, I feel a sigh of relief. I think that is why Trump has won the hearts of so many Americans from all backgrounds and why he may very well win, especially if the GOP dumps him.

Maj Brewer, You stated what I've been pondering for a while now. I'm not one average anything... Part White, Part Black, Part Native, with a background that includes growing up in ranch-land Texas, where owning and using guns was expected and accepted... and on top of all that, I'm Jewish.
Someone I was having a conversation with, a person who is Liberal and a product of a very large university, where she graduated just a few years ago, rolled her eyes, told me I'd NEVER UNDERSTAND, since I was a WHITE CONSERVATIVE who would never know what it was like to be poor, working for everything you needed, and held back by everyone because you were black. Keep in mind that this person is a whole lot more white than I could ever be, and apparently loaded down with all sorts of "White Guilt" that she expected me to share.
For several seconds I stood there, wondering if I could hold back the snort-laugh that was coming, then I realized it was best not to laugh, because she was actually serious.
Instead, I explained to her, that I didn't have any white guilt, because I joined the work force at 16, I grew up wearing hand-me-downs, learning how to fix cars, hunt and grow food, and I never felt a bit of guilt about any of that.
Within a nanosecond, she was literally screaming at me, about how I was THE PROBLEM in this world, and people like me were just going to have to DIE before life equaled out.
At this point, I realized that a Throat Punch was a valid option, but I chose instead to laugh, and walk away. I am short, chubby and gray-haired, and I would not do well in Jail, so it was time to walk away, but inside I was stunned. Am I, because I have fair skin, THE PROBLEM? I don't have the answer to this one, but I'd love to hear from someone who might have a Clue!

Yes. The biggest problem is people confusing equal opportunity with equal results. Now I'm not going to say discrimination doesn't happen. I know it does, but I also know it isn't as widespread or rampant as people make it out to be.

I had a friend whom I trusted with my life. Turns out he didn't value my life as much as I valued his life. Some of the things that came out of his mouth honestly scared me. The biggest issue being race. He started calling out for the extermination of the white man who've been oppressing his brothers for generations. Every time I saw him posting his hateful rhetoric I'd call him out on it before he finally blocked me from his life.

I grew up in multi-background neighborhoods. I am an equalist through and through. But lately it seems instead of classifying each other as people, everyone needs to subdivide you into little categories to determine how much "privilege" you have. You can only imagine how insulting it is growing up in the ghetto and then being told the only reason you got out of the ghetto is because I'm a straight white male. As if it had nothing to do with my single mom working double/triple shifts to save enough just to get out of the neighborhood.

Everyone has a struggle in life, but these days instead of recognizing that fact of life, we'd rather hold a pissing contest over who can be more oppressed.

Yes Sir. I believe that the PC inclusiveness produces more intolerance than it eliminates simply due to the element of Coercion involved.

Yes and No....

The problem we have is not when we include others into once exclusive groups. The problems come from changing standards to include these people into these groups. Women in Combat is a easy example. If women can do everything required by standards that men can do to be in combat then there should be no barrier for them entering combat. IF you change the standards to allow women in combat than you create a different group, marginalizing those already in the group and that is where problems happen.

But there is also the spin factor. You have people so set against women in combat that they imagine unbeatable standards to rationalize women being excluded. Even though no one in the group has had to perform these standards the Spin Doctor will point this out as a reason even though its fueled by prejudice and not fact.

I don't think being PC is a bad or good thing. Its the way its used. Both sides of the argument no longer look at facts and standards, but instead try to use emotion, and feelings to push an objective. PC has become an excuse for people to stop thinking rationally. If you blame something on being PC whether for or against it, you already lost the argument in my book.

But again just one mans humble opinion.

Brexit proves my point. The inclusivity of the EU has, inturn, alienated the UK.

I think you are right... The past 8 years have been a constant down-hill spiral of hatred, bad feelings, and so on. I didn't vote for the current president, but when he was elected, I had high hopes that his presidency would be a time for wonderful growth and understanding. He's had multiple, multiple, multiple opportunities to make things better. However, instead of calling for dialog, understanding, peace, and togetherness, he has created bad feelings, hatred, distrust. And I'm not saying that he's necessarily called for this openly, but by keeping silent, he's encouraged it. A REAL LEADER knows this... that its not just what you do or say, but what you don't do or say. In the PC situation, they seem to have forgotten that while we want equal rights for everyone, equal rights for even the smallest minority group, that they are ignoring and taking away the rights of the rest. To paraphrase something once said in Star Trek: In pushing forward the rights of the few, we should not take away the rights of the many. it seems that now the rights of the small groups are all that matter. It seems that they don't want equal rights, they want to lord it over and shove it down the throats of the many, and this is not right or fair or good, either.

I imagine in the beginning pointing out politically incorrectness was fueled with good intent as a way of calling attention to everyday conversation that might unknowingly be hurtful to people who would not normally speak up.

Now, in it’s more malevolent, venomous and malignant way, PC is used to manipulate, to attack someone the moment they think that they have found a weak spot to exploit. It’s a tool used to shut people up and shut people down who don’t agree.

The terms inclusion, diversity, and pluralism are used by many people for many different things or agendas, almost all of them incorrect. The intent is not to be able to say that we have Black, Asian, men, women, Christian, Jew, or Muslim or anything else in addition to white. The goal is to see all as human beings worthy of, deserving of, and receiving of respect and dignity simply because they are human beings. When we look at people by category we reduce them to outliers (even white people) and that can only breed disrespect, being demeaned, and the resulting situations being described here.

This was easy in the military because everyone was green and their gender was soldier. Sadly, that is no longer the case as social prejudices have entered the military and brought with them the same biases and counterproductive behavior rampant in society at large.