Strong Words, Weak Men
link Analysis: Sarah Palins use of blood libel sparks new controversy.
This time, the culprit is The Washington Post, another liberal source of cheap fish wrap masquerading as a newspaper driving the “words do hurt” wagon while the NY Times and Paul Krugmann go for a smoke break. The left’s favorite target, Sarah Palin is once again taken to task for her “hateful words and violent imagery”.
How did we allow society to fall under the tyranny of a small group of politically correct weasels? Hardly anything we say these days is not subject to the banal filter of sensitivity and correctness which somehow has come to be accepted as ‘civilized’ discourse. What are we, 5 years old? Over the past few generations, it appears that people can no longer treat people as adults, instead having to interact in sanitized gibberish bordering on infantspeak. We risk losing all color and depth to the English language if everything that’s said has to pass through the fine mesh of what’s acceptable.
Recently, there was a proposal by the U.S. State Department to replace the categories of Mother and Father on passport applications, to be replaced with the designations of Parent 1 and Parent 2. !!! Surely this couldn’t have been in response to some massive outcry from the public. Have the labels of Father and Mother become too confusing for people? At weddings, when the minister asks, ” who gives this woman to be wed to this man?”, would someone rather pipe up and say, ” I, Parent 1 do”? No doubt the initiative was spawned inside the smaller than normal sized head of some bureaucrat who wanted to extend the PC line to include test tube babies, gay parents and those who think it better reflects a secular society. Even so, why do other 98% of the general population have to ride along in their wack-wagon? Mercifully, in short order, this policy was reversed and the proper Mother and Father labels were re-instated. However, this is an apt illustration of the harm that only one moron can cause if they’re allowed to get away with it. Imagine if the cause was taken up by the media….or Oprah. Shiver.
In strict communist regimes, they are fond of de-humanizing their population as a means of maintaining order. Far easier to execute some unsavory action upon a populace if they’re a a collection of abstract numbers rather than real people with real names. As most know, the common moniker for people in those regimes are brother/sister, or comrade, implying equality, but really enforcing servility. In the case of western societies, which should know better, governments are also actively in the word sanitation business. Despite the liberal protestations of the imagery, the term War On Terror was an explicit and clear depiction of what the stakes were in the ongoing battle with terrorist campaigns against the U.S. The revision by the present administration to the catchy “Man Caused Disaster” is laughably meaningless and could apply to anything including the invention of turkey fryers. There was recently a push to scrub the colloquial term for a black person from the book, Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. This is changing history folks. They are trying to change the way things were characterized during a period in America’s history.
We’ve reached the point in society that small molehills are built into great mountains based on someones interpretation of what’s offensive and perhaps hurtful. Perhaps many of these people were test tube babies and lived inside some bubble world until they were old enough to be sent to the brainwash academies, I mean universities. As most people of my generation know, when we grew up as kids, you were exposed to all kinds of idiots. You called them names, they called you names. Few of us went on to develop deep seated emotional scars to be manifest later on in life via anti social and violent behavior. Ok, well some did become lawyers, but for the most part, name calling was just name calling. It was the sticks and stones part that was hurtful.
Today, you have to have a jargon handbook available just to figure out what they’re trying to say in the news. A crook is now a morally or ethically challenged person, a bunch of hooligans burning cars and breaking store windows during a riot are student demonstrators. A famous professor found to be cheating at school was academically dishonest. A drug addict is chemically challenged. Urban=black. On the other hand, the label for hunter is now changed to animal assassin. One of the more amusing ones I’ve heard is the expression for panhandler; unaffiliated applicant for private sector funding.
How about we just call a spade a spade? How about we just call idiots, idiots instead of liberal journalists?