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Source: Caddie Steve Williams defends using “slave” to describe working for Tiger

While it may appear that Williams’ use of the word ‘slave’ is an international scandal, in fact only about 14 people care and those are likely the friends of this article’s author.

It’s not clear from the article exactly who was offended by the use of the ‘s’ word. If the author is to be believed, the world is aghast at the horrific use of this word and surely a groundswell of anger will rise forcing Williams’ firing as a caddie.  He implies that the populace will denounce Williams as if he were Charlie Hebdo depicting Mohammed.  While he may get sympathetic audience in certain circles, oh let’s say at the University of Missouri, most readers will likely just move on to the fantasy football stats.

As rabidly fanatical as Muslim zealots may be, their outrage is mostly confined to anything which they feel is an insulting depiction of their prophet Mohammed.  Feel free to disparage their lifestyle, treatment of women or personal proclivities, but don’t make fun of the Prophet.

The PC zealots however have a much broader net of unacceptable words, phrases and expressions and it keeps expanding.  Williams’ use of the ‘s’ word was an innocuous description of how he felt about his role with Tiger, but unbeknownst to him, that word is on the growing list of offensive adjectives and nouns.  At the very least, someone should publish a complete guide to offensive words; call it the Snowflake dictionary.  They can publish it and distribute copies so that like minded bearded people can gather in groups and shake it at offenders while chanting “death to America”.  Ok, well not everyone needs a beard.

You can’t make this stuff up.  Only in the mentality of the Orwellian named Progressive mindset can you justify the restrictions of the use of language.  As this tidal wave of PC moves forward, future generations will be robbed of some very colorful descriptions of things as they are banished by the word police.  Gone will be Chinese fire drill, Russian roulette, Irish spring, Greek wedding, gypped, Tasmanian devil, French kiss.  Those are obvious, and in fact, we’ve already been conditioned to use ‘chairperson’, ‘significant other’ and ‘partner’.  We’ve already done away with fat, crazy and stupid, especially if it applies to one person.

But what about “healthy” because it offends disabled people; hard worker because it’s offensive to slaves; “winner” because it’s offensive to losers; and I’m not making this stuff up,  ‘girl’ .  The word ‘dumb’ is rapidly on its way out even though most people’s use of it has nothing to do congenital deficiency.  We expect that Disney will have to go back and reshoot all their cartoon elephant programming.

Not known to most people is the fact that the expression “politically correct” was first invoked by…Mao Tse Tung, he of the re-education camp fame.   That should tell you all you need about the nature of the ideology pushed upon us today.

link SUV crashes into departure level at YVR – Headlines – News – News1130 – ALL NEWS RADIO

In 1993, the World Trade Center was attacked deliberately by terrorists who detonated explosives packed into the trunk of a vehicle parked in the basement parkade of the towers. Although a few deaths and injuries occurred, damage to the structures was contained and subsequently repaired.

Fast forward to September of 2001 and this time, the terrorists succeeded by hurtling entire aircraft into the towers resulting in mayhem, death, destruction and led to a controversial war. In December of that same year, the idiot Richard Reid was thwarted in his attempt to light a fuse on his shoe while on an American Airlines flight from Paris.

For the past 8 years, millions if not hundreds of millions of air travellers have been forced to de-shoe their tootsies while going through airport security because of this idiot. This precaution must work because there have been a total of zero, zip, nada, none, goose egg incidents of this kind in the past 8 years. Not only that, there has not been even a reported attempt at this type of high tech shenanigan again. Frankly, to expect a repeat of this action is an insult both to terrorists as well as the rest of us.

Luckily, the fuse was on his shoe not in his underwear, or we’d see separate his and her security lines at the airport today. Oddly, we are still on guard against people with flammable shoes, but not on guard for vehicles packed with explosives driving into buildings. Wouldn’t it be easier to circulate in the general community hatching up car bombs than to stand in line at airports subject to the beady eyed scrutiny of security personnel?

The story in the link above caused me to think that although it was apparently an accident caused by a bad driver, ( hey this is Vancouver) such an incident could have been planned with malevolent intent by bad people.

“Well sure,” some would argue, “you can’t check every car that goes near a building” and this is true. But neither is it likely that future troublemakers will re-do the shoe thing again. Heck, it’s probably just as easy to glue some explosives in someone’s toupee or hat or turban or glass eye or denture plate. Diabolical minds will think of all kinds of creative ways to cause havoc. People have been conned to think this is a security measure which is implemented for their protection. It appears more likely this is bureaucratic measure that’s long past its usefulness, but which cannot find someone with the balls to push for its abolition. This has everything to do with PC again. Since no one wants to isolate or ‘profile’ individuals, far better to inconvenience everyone.

Again, it’s a puzzle to me why people, civilians and politicians, allow the on-going erosion of little dignities which characterize life in the so called free world. See previous post on global stupidity.