Image via WikipediaPolitical correctness is one of the banes of society.
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“When judges create new "rights" for bullies out of thin air, just as they do for criminals, and prescribe "due process" for school discipline, just as if schools were little courtrooms, then nothing is likely to happen promptly or decisively. […] President Barack Obama has joined the chorus of those deploring bullying. But his own administration is pushing the notion that a disproportionate number of suspensions or other punishments for members of particular racial or ethnic groups is discriminatory. In other words, if a school suspends more black males than Asian females, that is taken as a sign of discrimination. No one in his right mind really believes that, but it is part of the grand make-believe that pervades our politics and even our courts. […] If these were white kids beating up Hispanic kids, cries of outrage would ring out across the land from the media, the politicians, the churches and civic groups. But it is not politically correct to make a fuss when black kids beat up Asian kids.” [emphasis added]
— Thomas Sowell, 2011/04/19 (townhall.com)
It is widely acknowledged that our great American society is, nevertheless, beset by issues in need of improvement. Among the most egregious of these has been self-imposed:
Political correctness […] is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, religious belief, disability, and age-related contexts, and doing so to an excessive extent. [emphasis added]As if we didn't have enough naturally emerging problems to deal with, the leftists among us insist on burdening all of us with this completely misguided monkey wrench. Moreover, the same leftists' conceit is that they themselves know intrinsically what is politically correct, and, equally menacing, what is not. This societal straightjacket from political hell has led to a plethora of behavioral madness of the sort described in Thomas Sowell's article (excerpted above).
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The underlying fallacy of PC is the fantasy that government can successfully force uniformity of beliefs, attitudes and behavior so as to effect uniformity of outcomes conforming to established quotas that mimic all census demographics. Whereas our Nation's laws rightfully confer only equal opportunity to pursue happiness, our laws wisely do not guarantee equality of outcomes. And we are a nation of laws, not of men who think they are the law.
America is the land of opportunity. It is not, nor was it ever meant to be, the land of coercive PC. This is not to say we have no room for compassion. America has demonstrated great compassion for the less fortunate among us. But compassion must come from the hearts of men, not from the dictates of leftists. If you must ask, "why", I must respond, "because I say so", as do millions of other rational beings.
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