Political Correctness and Human Sacrifice
Don Imus has been sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.
Yes, his comment about the Rutger’s women’s baseketball team, calling them “tattooed, nappy-haired hos”, was crass, vulgar, over the top, and completely uncalled for, but the comment didn’t venture into the realm of racism. His employers were right to issue a censure against him – in this case, a two week suspension was the initial response.
This suspension, however, was not enough for the Professionally Offended. With torches and pitchforks, Jesse and Al were mustered outside the CBS buiilding calling for Imus’ to be fired. CBS eventually caved to their demands and released Imus from his employment. Without the Professionally Offended pushing the issue, Imus would have been censured, the young ladies will have gone on with their lives, and the whole affair would have ended at that.
Again, this comes back to a double standard. Thurday night, Malik Shabazz, leader of the Black Panther Party, called Michelle Malkin a “prostitue” who was whoring herself for the “white male cheauvenist” Bill O’Reilly. Interestingly enough, there was no calls for Shabazz, a defense attorney, to apologize or to resign whatever position he may hold. Ms. Malkin regularly receives racist and misogynistic emails directed at her by the “tolerant” left.
Other high-profile figures have been on the recieving end of genuine racial epithets. Larry Elder has been called practically every name in the book. Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice has been called “Aunt Jemima”, “house slave”, and worse. USA Today columnist Julianne Malveaux said this about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas:
“I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. … He is an absolutely reprehensible person.”
This is just a small sampling of genuine racism that is directed at those who are not of the proper political persuasion, and is yet another example of the ongoing double standard espoused by those who claim to be “tolerant” of others.
I have long argued that the most important form of diversity is the diversity of thoughts and ideas. In many ways, this is something I learn from Dr. Martin Luther King, who once said that people should be judge by their character, not their race. It seems, however, that those who most lously proclaim to be against racism tend to be the biggest racists of all, and Dr. King’s wise words have fallen upon their deaf ears.
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