link Boy Charged in Wal-Mart Bias Case in New Jersey – NYTimes.com.
Really? This is news? No less than the NY Times finds this bit of boorish behaviour national news? Some 16 year old kid does something stupid in an ill advised stunt and just because it happens to be in a Wal Mart, it rates a national level tsk tsk? All of a sudden, racism is running amok and Wal Mart is complicit by not having safeguards to stop it?
While no one condones this kind of boorish behavior at any age, not every slight against minorities is national news. The media continues to push the PC agenda by this kind of selective sensationalist reportage. Consider some of the lyrics in most rap songs, which contain much more inflammatory language directed at blacks, whites as well as vulgar misogynistic references. This kind of stuff is celebrated as art and people make money from it. Far from being intemperate adolescents, the artistes who inflict this stuff on society actively create this kind of crapola, the more offensive, the better.
In the Wal Mart incident, would there have been as much outrage if the miscreant was a black teenager getting on the PA and telling all whites to leave the store? It may have rated a mention in the Gloucester County bugler next to the bake sales ads. It is also doubtful that the kid would be facing a year in jail as a consequence. What if it was a gay person telling all non gays to leave the store? Stupid and asinine behaviour of course, but hardly a federal case.
link Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban Absurd.
I have written a piece about this earlier, (see I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter). It was improbable at the time that NY would actually try to regulate salt on restaurant food, but now, there are plans to ban it altogether according to this article. To this I say, GOOD!
Let’s hope that they continue to vote zealots into office to push compliance of the masses for all things correct and decent. Society will be made better and to paraphrase Orwell, all this restriction will equal greater freedom. Naturally, not all will be happy to comply with the growing roster of rules for everyday living. In fact, what will happen is that an entirely new generation of scofflaws will emerge as rebels against a smothering society. Like the cowboys of yesteryear or the romantic rebels portrayed by Dean and Brando in the 50’s, the new rebels will assume the status of society’s anti-heroes.
Except that in modern times, this new batch of societal rejects may not move the swashbuckling needle as much as their predecessors. Whereas evocative nicknames such as Spike, Clint, Slim or Gunner were found in days of yore, the newer modern rogues are more likely to have such catchy names as Tyler, Andrew or Sarah. Of course scofflaws and social misfits of all epochs tend to gather in gangs, formal or informal. Modern cities will experience pockets of the new rebels shaking salt on their fries in full view of children, riding bicycles without helmets, talking on cell phones in cars and not separating recyclables from trash. What dreaded scourges of society!