Donald Sterling, owner of a NBA
basketball team, recently caused quite a stir for making racially
insensitive remarks. And as indicated in the link Sterling is indeed an
indecent person and a racist. The mainstream media pounced on the
story. NBA players, politicians, even the president and racists galore
had a field day detailing their outrage. He has been barred by the
NBA from having anything to do with the league and is likely to be
forced to sell the team. All of this reveals a serious flaw in our
current culture fed by political correctness and media fanfare. I ask
this simple question. Have any of you said or done something that would
in today's world be deemed politically incorrect? I venture to say
everyone has, multiple times. Should we all now be subjected to
Political Correctness police scrutiny and punished in some way for
having personal opinions that might offend someone or some group??? Why
does political correctness now dominate our culture and to what end?
In my opinion it is nothing more than the means by which progressive
elitists shut down debate and expressions of different opinions.
Meaning that only politically correct opinions/actions as determined by
liberals/progressives are allowed (even if their opinions/actions offend
someone else or some group they don't like). Think of the
implications. Serving as an example is the recent case of the Mozilla
CEO being forced to resign/fired because the PC supported LBGT
crowd disapproves of his personal support of traditional marriage.
Succumbing to this political correctness dogmatism is destructive. This
article lays out the case and even points out that a great black
American NBA hall of famer agrees this is a case of uncivilized
hogwash. It is a symptom of a decaying civilized culture. http://www.redstate.com/2014/04/29/the-donald-sterling-precedent/
See what I mean. http://www.teaparty.org/big-chill-feds-want-scour-net-media-hate-speech-40716/
This is a flagrant attempt by self-righteous progressives/liberals to
clamp down on free speech. They do so knowing full well it violates the
first amendment. They "know" they are right...just like Obama who is
prone to saying whatever he proposes is "the right thing to do". In
the real world you cannot punish "thoughts". Only "committing an act"
that in some way actually harms someone is punishable." What is going
on with the liberal left is frighteningly close to being Orwellian.
George Burns
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