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Source: Doctor dragged off United hires two sets of lawyers | Daily Mail Online

Ok, so by now, the misadventures of this United Airlines passenger has caused more people to tsk tsk world wide than the time Hugh Grant was caught cheating on Liz Hurley.  It’s pretty hard to defend the corporate actions of United in this instance since the entire pitiful exchange was videoed by teams of passengers as evidence.

I’m not going to suggest that United handled this situation well, but they also had the misfortune to pick upon a slightly unhinged individual as a removal candidate.  What kind of an educated person, much less a medical doctor, squeals like a snowflake college student when asked to leave a plane?  It’s one thing to be visibly annoyed and stalk off in righteous huff, since he would be entitled, but to flail around and wail as if he was doused in spiders is a tad on the unhinged side.  While the world comes down hard on the airline, what has been  overlooked is that the passenger’s behavior was irrational and  inappropriate to the circumstances.

And the worse part of it is, the guy (and his lawyers) will likely receive a windfall of money from United because the court of public opinion has already vilified and convicted the airline.  What this emotionally unstable person has effected is not just a resounding lesson to United; he has in fact created new economic opportunities for all nutters and those willing to play the role.  The lesson is, act like a child, behave irrationally and play the victim to the max.  All businesses will be at risk from restaurants to barber shops as people go postal on any inconvenience dared to be foisted upon them.  Get a bad haircut or eat some bad clams,  run through a plate glass window and get someone to film you bleeding.  The ambulance chaser business just discovered  a new revenue motherlode.

In this time of extreme sensitivity to any and all slights from all quarters, it’s truly shocking that a company as resource rich as United would  allow themselves to be so exposed to such avoidable litigation.  Now that the floodgates are open, expect the next guy who didn’t receive a bag of nuts to wail like Howard Dean in order to extract compensatory money from the hapless airline.  United have allowed themselves to be a contributor to the lucrative victim industry.  Expect to see teams of lawyers hanging around the departure areas of all future flights.

Update: And here we go

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.