As IF Times

link When race is mentioned in the Chicago Tribune – chicagotribune.com.

More idiocy masking as objectivity.  The ill advised policies of political correctness actively pursued by liberal sensibilities are fast becoming caricatures of stupidity.  In the animal world, only the highly advanced humans would ignore the most basic tenets of survival.  The natural equivalent of all of this politically correct nonsense would be if Wildebeest were to blithely frolic about while all around them lions began to gather. This is fantasy, we would never see this because Wildebeest are not that stupid.

In the human world, thanks to moronic notions of fairness, people are asked to literally turn a blind eye to the nefarious elements of society.  Apparently, the label of racist is the most heinous of all things one can be accused of, more to be avoided than other sundry labels such as, oh let’s say, murderer, child molester, or Internet creep.  We know this thanks to the exploits of Fidel Castro, Roman Polanski and of course recently, Anthony Weiner.  Because of this mentality, we have an entire expensive and cumbersome bureaucracy dedicated to making life miserable for the travelling public at airports including the prototypical Swedish grandmothers and nursing infants.  Rather than scrutinize the segment of society that has historically been most at risk to cause grief and mayhem to innocents, why not be inclusive and give the Mexican prisoner treatment to everyone? This despite the fact that troublemakers tend to have distinct characteristics of appearance and background.

The non-reporting of all the facts that pertain to the rash of mob attacks in many US cities, but in particular as depicted by this Chicago paper is fomenting the same type of willful stupidity.  If the ‘kids’ involved in the mob attacks are not only generally, but almost exclusively black, wouldn’t that be germane to the story?  When the Tribune reports that packs of ‘kids’ were attacking innocent civilians, are the readers supposed to imagine a gaggle of Richie Cunninghams mobbing them?  What if you had to fill out a police report?

“Well, let’s see, there were 7 or 8 of them…they were young… all had arms…some had hair….”

“Any other distinguishing characteristics? Hair color, race perhaps?”

“Oh no, we didn’t notice whether they were all black kids wearing baseball caps askew,  baggy pants  and speaking Ebonics or not, no sir, none of that occurred to us because we’re not racists at all, no sirree…”

The whole charade is farcical.  For some to pretend that racial issues don’t exist and that those dynamics don’t come into normal social interaction is ostrich behaviour at its best.  When the current President of the United States is elected into office coming out of nowhere, with no executive experience, no history of legislative achievements and with a closet full of sketchy collaborators, there is no explanation for it other than the naked truth.  He was elected because he was black.  Given similar qualifications, no other person would have been elected if they didn’t have the racial advantage.  If fact, much has been made of this milestone in American history.  This achievement has been endlessly trumpeted by the liberal left as proof of society’s evolution.  The only thing this has really proved however is that a black president can be just as incompetent as a white president.  But hey,  at least they were inclusive.  The policies and results derived from Obama’s time in office would never be tolerated by the public and media if he were not black.  In fact, any criticism of his agenda is construed as a racist attack.

Nevertheless, Obama proves that people of color can achieve high office and indeed THE highest office, so the on going arguments for politically correct sensibilities are outdated.  The old chestnut of the disadvantaged inner city black youth has less validity.  The  achievements of Obama, of Oprah, of Condaleeza Rice, of Colin Powell, although exceptions, prove that the possibility for great success exists for black people and that resorting to anti social, criminal lifestyles is an option, not a destiny.

The delusion of the left over the foibles of people of any color perpetuates the segmentation of people and prevents true equality in society.  It’s unclear to me why people should be regarded as one big homogeneous glop.   It is an affront to rational thinking.  Stupidity and brilliance are present in all peoples and as such, instances of both should be pointed out, especially by an ‘objective’ media.  Those that ignore this are the true racists.

link Anthony Weiner: poster child for mistrust – baltimoresun.com.

People get tired of this story because it is so base.  Weiner himself perpetuates the saga by virtue of not resigning after the queasy details of his personal peccadilloes have been revealed.  Otherwise, it would have been  old news by now and people would have moved on to the next scandal.

Now the story takes a different dimension.  The focus is no longer on Weiner, it now shifts to the constituency that he represents because there are reports that by a simple majority there, people support him.  This is the root of some of the malaise that infects society at large. The cliche goes that people deserve who they elect and this gets proved again and again.  Less than a year ago Charlie Rangel, the permanent Democratic fixture in New York was censured for all kinds of offside activities while sitting as a congressman.  Avoiding taxes was one such issue, which is only noteworthy because he was one of the authors of the federal tax code.  Lovable Chuck managed to ‘golly gee, shucks” his way out of that one.  The lovable rascal didn’t have to resign, because, well he’s so gosh darn charming and the people loved him.  Besides, his explanations for his transgressions were all innocent enough:  He forgot, or didn’t understand the complexities of his tax issues.

Mr. Weiner, to his credit did a full mea culpa.  There was no room for misunderstandings, no accidents, no reasonable explanation of his recreational proclivities.  Despite his impressive Pinocchio impersonation, the people in his district still think enough of Weiner to allow him to represent them.  He’s still their boy!  This is great for Weiner, because now, he doesn’t even have to pretend to be sane!  His public knows that he’s warped  and they don’t care!  Not that this is a big surprise, given his New York district, which, like San Francisco on the other side of the country support their own varieties of mixed nuts.   What this means however, is that for the rest of the population, they must endure policies passed in no small part by the input of these flaky representatives.  Essentially, the wacko predilections of these districts are transmitted to the nation as a whole, truly a tyranny of the minority. 

This also means that crafting rational policies to deal with large scale social and financial issues are entirely moot excercises.  Obviously, trying to reason with people of these constituencies would be like explaining string theory to monkeys.  It’s very much a mob mentality.  To attack the leader of the mob, regardless of how eminently unlikeable their personalities, is to attack the mob itself.  I’m sure even Weiner is surprised by all of this support.   People can take encouragement by these episodes.  This means that anyone but anyone can run for public office.  As a matter of fact, they should actually publish a picture list of requirements to make it simpler for those who can’t read, (incidentally not a dis-qualifier).  Apart from shallowness of character, extreme narcissism and lack of any rational judgement, pants being on fire would be good credentials to have.  The major stipulation is that you need to bring along  a few million voters who are just like you.   Next thing you know, Alec Baldwin will be running for mayor of New York….