by Eric DonderoWhat's in a watermelon? Some PC leftists apparently believe that it should be illegal to suggest that African-Americans have an ethnic preference for the native American fruit. Or, at the very least a firing offense.
Dean Grosse, Mayor Pro-Tem of the small Orange County, CA city of Los Alamitos was forced to resign this week over an email he sent out to friends. The cartoon graph showed a watermelon patch in front of the White House. A black city councilwoman got the email and responded that the Mayor was "friggin' insane," and called for his immediate resignation.
Note - The media did not call the councilwoman on the carpet for the use of the term "friggin'" which is a common substitute for the more explicit "fuckin'."
Grosse has resigned as Mayor, though he will remain on the 5 member City Council.
See local TV News story at Breitbart.com.
Ironically, the very same day as this story broke, another former CA small-town Mayor, had some very strong words for PC Mania sweeping across the US.
From Yahoo News, Feb. 27:
Eastwood thinks political correctness has made society humourlessPerhaps libertarian Clint should take his message south, away from his hometown of Carmel, and make a guest appearance in Los Alamitos?"People have lost their sense of humour. In former times we constantly made jokes about different races. You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth or you will be insulted as a racist," the Daily Express quoted him as saying.
"I find that ridiculous. In those earlier days every friendly clique had a 'Sam the Jew' or 'Jose the Mexican' - but we didn't think anything of it or have a racist thought. It was just normal that we made jokes based on our nationality or ethnicity. That was never a problem. I don't want to be politically correct.
We're all spending too much time and energy trying to be politically correct about everything," he added.
RELATED ISSUE
In light of the recent Monkey Cartoon controversy, Mike McNally over at Pajama's Media has a column warning pundits and political cartoonists from depicting primates or using them in satyre for the next four years. In "Political Correctness gone Ape" he writes:
it appears that any and all media depictions of primates which have negative connotations are off limits for at least the next four years, lest they be interpreted as a coded attack on the president.He adds: "So no more King Kong remakes — unless the star is a giant polar bear battling global warming."
12 comments:
When I was in college in the early '80s, I had a CONSERVATIVE prof who said that PC was a death knell for the USA. I didn't think much of it at the time, but since Hillary Clinton's mouth was the first place I heard it coming from, I knew it couldn't be good. Ahh, to be young and dumb again...like an Obama voter.
You still have no clue what "political correctness" means. Here ya' go:
As it's commonly used, "PC" is a deliberately imprecise expression (just try finding or writing a terse, precise definition) because its objective isn't to communicate a substantive idea, but simply to sneer and snivel about the linguistic and cultural burdens of treating all people with the respect and sensitivity with which they wish to be treated. Thus, the Herculean effort required to call me "Asian American" rather than "chink" is seen as a concession to "the PC police", an unsettling infringement on the free-wheeling conversation of, I suppose, "non-chinks". Having to refer to black folks as "African Americans" rather than various historically-prevalent epithets surely strikes some red-blooded blue-balled white-men as a form of cultural oppression. Having to refer to "women" rather than "bitches" lays a violent buzzkill on the bar-room banter of men preoccupied with beating on their chests and off other body parts.
Obviously these examples fall on the simplistic side of things, but I think they illustrate the shaky philosophical foundation of today's usage. Underlying every complaint of "PC" is the absurd notion that members of dominant mainstream society have been victimized by an arbitrarily hypersensitive prohibition against linguistic and cultural constructions that are considered historical manifestations of bigotry. It's no coincidence that "PC"-snivelers are for the most part white men who are essentially saying, "Who the hell do these marginalized groups think they are to tell me how I should or shouldn't portray them? I'm not going to say 'mentally challenged' when it's my right to say 'retard', goshdarnit there's only so much abuse I'll take!"
In this context, the conceit that "political correctness" constitutes a violation of free speech is particularly zany; as though society's marginalized groups wield oppressive power over the dominant mainstream. Actually, as far as I'm concerned you're free to call me "chink" and I'm free to call you "moronic racist loser" (and more if necessary, but I'll leave that aside for now in the interest of false civility). Free speech is the straw man of choice for intellectual bums of all stripes too fragile and vacuous for critical engagement. Calling someone who says or does bigoted things "a bigot" isn't censorious, it's descriptively accurate, like calling a bad movie "a bad movie", even if the bigot didn't intend to come off as bigoted and the movie didn't intend to come off as bad.
The Greatest Cliché: The Unexamined Propaganda of "Political Correctness"
By the way, you do realize that Michael Steele is on record as having used the word "friggin" when describing Jindal, right? Should he be called to task for doing so?
Dean Grosse, Mayor Pro-Tem of the small Orange County, CA city of Los Alamitos was forced to resign this week over an email he sent out to friends.
Dean Grosse was not forced to resign. He chose to do so.
You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth or you will be insulted as a racist
YOU'LL be insulted? How rich! Of course the people who he has labeled couldn't possibly feel insulted, right?
It was just normal that we made jokes based on our nationality or ethnicity. That was never a problem.
Making jokes about your nationality or ethnicity /= making jokes about other people's nationality or ethnicity. Just as you have referred to people and their "lily white ass" here on LR, it would be completely different if I were to do so. In fact, I'm fairly sure that you'd call me a racist were I to ever make such a statement.
Wow Bint. Thanks for that long post. Sounds like something straight out of the Liberal-Fascist Manifesto.
If confirmed every fear of those who support Liberty and oppose the oppresive political censorship of those on the Left.
Trust me, you're not doing your side, nor your employer George Soros any good, by posting such leftwing drivel.
Umm, excuse me Bint, but I friggin' love the term "friggin'." You misread the point of the article. Not saying that "friggin'" shouldn't be used, but rather pointing out the hypocrisy of the liberal media in slamming the Mayor, yet letting the Black lady City Councilman pass for calling him a "friggin' idiot."
In some Russian/Slavic cultures, the term "idiot" btw, is quite an extreme insult.
Eric,
If confirmed every fear of those who support Liberty and oppose the oppresive political censorship of those on the Left.
Hahaha! I saw this just now and thought of you:
Thinking of you Eric
So, let me get this straight. Perfectly fine to be an "Angry Black Man," like the Farakhan/Million March crowd or the Black Panthers. But an "Angry White Man," is somehow "racist."
Thanks for cleaing that up for me.
Normally I like to harp on Eric for this kind of stuff, but even I'm perplexed by "friggin". In what context is "friggin" offensive when it is only a cleaner way of saying "fuckin", like when we say "crap" instead of "shit"?
Jaysus, for once I agree with Eric that that's BS.
Pree-Cisely! Friggin' is just a cleaner way of saying Fuckin'. Like crap is to shit.
(Next time please include your name with your post - Thanx!)
"Get off my 'frickin" lawn!"
Eric,
Perfectly fine to be an "Angry Black Man," like the Farakhan/Million March crowd or the Black Panthers. But an "Angry White Man," is somehow "racist."
The guy who wrote that essay is a Chinese-American, not black. Furthermore, some angry white men are racist. That's just a fact. If you think it's possible for some black people to be racist, then there's no reason to believe it can't be true about some whites.
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