Wednesday, July 16, 2008
PC is gonna kill US
Creeder Reader Drew sends us this ridiculous story:
"A county commissioners' meeting this week over traffic tickets turned into a tense discussion over race when one commissioner said the county's collections office was like a certain astronomical phenomenon.
"'It sounds like Central Collections has become a black hole,' Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said during the Monday meeting.
"One black official demanded an apology, and Commissioner John Wiley Price, who also is black, said that type of language is unacceptable.
"At the meeting, Mayfield said he intended his comments to be taken in the context of the scientific meaning, and became upset that he was being misunderstood.
"In astronomy, the term black hole refers to a star that has collapsed upon itself, creating something so dense and small that it does not have any physical properties besides a gravitational force so great that even light cannot escape its pull.
"Later, Price told MyFOXdfw.com that he believed it and other terms were racist." [Emphasis mine]
I bet Mr. Price would like it if folks stopped calling a particular grade of beef "Black Angus" beef. I mean, doesn't Black Angus sound like a character from Amos & Andy?
You know, we laugh when we read or see stories in which hyper-sensitive/pro-PC types piss and moan and try to cause trouble. But hyper-sensitive/pro-PC types are pissing and moaning and causing trouble with ever-increasing frequency. And it's no longer a laughing matter. These shipdits are changing our culture ... and not for the better.
If we were living in a perfect world, an office-holder who suggested that a black hole/wasteful-spending analogy was an exercise in racism should, at the very least, be ridiculed, marginalized, and kicked out of office. But such ain't happening. The guy in question hasn't been marginalized, at all; indeed, he's receiving sympathetic attention for "exposing" racism where no racism exists. (I can't help but try to physically roll my eyes 180 degrees whilst thinking about it.)
The Jeffersons has always been one of my favorite television programs. I often mimic George Jefferson's chest out/arms swinging walk at home, at work, and (when I've had a few) out in public. I'm just waiting for the day when someone sees my GJ impression and accuses me of fomenting racial hostility. It won't happen tomorrow, next week, or next month, but I can envision a U.S.A. in which a plain-lookin' white guy gets fired, locked up, or sentenced to wear a dress with a big "R" on it for mimicking a black entertainer whom he greatly admires.
Scoff if you must, but such a day is coming ...
"A county commissioners' meeting this week over traffic tickets turned into a tense discussion over race when one commissioner said the county's collections office was like a certain astronomical phenomenon.
"'It sounds like Central Collections has become a black hole,' Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said during the Monday meeting.
"One black official demanded an apology, and Commissioner John Wiley Price, who also is black, said that type of language is unacceptable.
"At the meeting, Mayfield said he intended his comments to be taken in the context of the scientific meaning, and became upset that he was being misunderstood.
"In astronomy, the term black hole refers to a star that has collapsed upon itself, creating something so dense and small that it does not have any physical properties besides a gravitational force so great that even light cannot escape its pull.
"Later, Price told MyFOXdfw.com that he believed it and other terms were racist." [Emphasis mine]
I bet Mr. Price would like it if folks stopped calling a particular grade of beef "Black Angus" beef. I mean, doesn't Black Angus sound like a character from Amos & Andy?
You know, we laugh when we read or see stories in which hyper-sensitive/pro-PC types piss and moan and try to cause trouble. But hyper-sensitive/pro-PC types are pissing and moaning and causing trouble with ever-increasing frequency. And it's no longer a laughing matter. These shipdits are changing our culture ... and not for the better.
If we were living in a perfect world, an office-holder who suggested that a black hole/wasteful-spending analogy was an exercise in racism should, at the very least, be ridiculed, marginalized, and kicked out of office. But such ain't happening. The guy in question hasn't been marginalized, at all; indeed, he's receiving sympathetic attention for "exposing" racism where no racism exists. (I can't help but try to physically roll my eyes 180 degrees whilst thinking about it.)
The Jeffersons has always been one of my favorite television programs. I often mimic George Jefferson's chest out/arms swinging walk at home, at work, and (when I've had a few) out in public. I'm just waiting for the day when someone sees my GJ impression and accuses me of fomenting racial hostility. It won't happen tomorrow, next week, or next month, but I can envision a U.S.A. in which a plain-lookin' white guy gets fired, locked up, or sentenced to wear a dress with a big "R" on it for mimicking a black entertainer whom he greatly admires.
Scoff if you must, but such a day is coming ...
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Wednesday, July 16, 2008 
