On Political Correctness
It's been some time since my sense of outrage has prompted me to post a new item. My outrage was more or less constant when the Liberals were in power, and lying, stealing, wasting and mismanaging government was official government policy. The Harper government deserves a chance to provide honest and competent government, and for a bunch of rookies they have done remarkably well.
The Gwyn Morgan affair has revived my contempt for the Liberals and NDP and prompts this new posting. We all know that Gwyn Morgan, a man by all reports of high intelligence and moral character, great success, CEO of the Year, and an altogether admirable man was rejected by a 6 - 5 vote of a Commons committee considering whether his offer to head the new Parliamentary Appointments Commission for $1 a year should be approved.
Some months before in a speech in Calgary, Morgan had commented that immigrants from violent cultures sometimes bring that violence with them when they come to Canada. He referred to the notorious Jamaican drug dealer murderers in Toronto and the notorious Asian drug dealer gangsters in the West. Both the Jamaicans and the Asians have been written up many, many times in the media, and are a vivid part of the public consciousness throughout Canada.
Despite that, members of the Nerds and Dunces Party, the Libranos, and the Blockheads, played the racist card, claiming that Morgan was racist and unfit for the post because of those remarks.
Aside entirely from the venal, destructive, partisan politics of the political trash who supported this false allegation, it amounts to political correctness run amok. It is a clear example of the destructive nature of political correctness.
I once heard someone say that political correctness amounts to being polite to everyone, so what's wrong with that? What's wrong with that is that being polite is not what political correctness is all about. Political correctness is turning a blind eye to any defect, shortfall, failure or crime of a favoured group. It is about making excuses for everything about that favoured group. If a member of a favoured group, drops out of school, deals drugs, and kills people, political correctness demands that he not be seen as a bad person, but a victim of society's failure towards him.
Thus we see Paul Martin, a stupid weak little man and a thorough failure as Prime Minister, saying that the Jamaican gangsters who gunned down a teenage girl on a crowded Toronto street before Christmas, didn't do it because they are vicious murderers, they did it because they are "excluded" in our society. There was absolutely no evidence to that effect, and in fact there is ample evidence that these Jamaican killers are able to roam free and do what they want in our liberal society. The absence of any need for evidence and rejection of reality is another hallmark of the politically correct.
The damage that is done by political correctness is that it prevents any meaningful dealing with favoured groups. The favoured groups are coddled, excused, and never called to account, no matter how they behave.
Further damage is done when political correctness is used as a weapon against disfavoured groups - like successful, white males, as happened in the Gwyn Morgan fiasco.
Those who employ poliltical correctness fall into two groups. Those who haven't thought it through or are ignorant of the facts, but see the favoured group through rose coloured glasses and will hear no critcism of it. They may be well meaning, but do harm by their politically correct attitudes. No group should be immune to constructive and fair criticism. Constant indulgence will rot that group, just as too much sugar will rot your teeth.
The second group who employs political correctness are the sort of hypocritical liars that we saw on the Gwyn Morgan committee. These are people who have an axe to grind, and use political correctness to grind it. They know they are lying when they make their accusations of racism, but they know they can convince well meaning people because they claim to be morally righteous. The sheer cynicism of people like this is despicable.
Speaking of cynical and despicable people, the MPs who voted against Gwyn Morgan's appointment were:
Peggy Nash - Nerds and Dunces Party - Ontario
Joe Volpe - Libranos - Ontario
Omar Alghabra - Libranos - Ontario
Raymond Bonin - Libranos - Ontario
Caroline St. Hilaire - Blockheads - Quebec
Louise Thibeault - Blockheads - Quebec
These people are destructive trash, unworthy of any public office. It is probably too much to hope that the voters of Ontario and Quebec will end their political careers, but they should.
It seems to me that whenever political correctness rears its head in conversation, the person who raised it should be called on it. Slap those rose coloured glasses off his blinkered eyes. Hit him with facts. Reject his false excuses. Don't let the likes of Paul Martin get away with talking about "excusion" being the reason that ethnic drug dealers are killing innocent bystanders on our streets. Don't let political correctness cause us to lose worthy people in our public offices. Take that political correctness and shove it into a convenient orifice of the person employing it. That will probably be around behind, since the poliltically correct tend to be assholes.
The Gwyn Morgan affair has revived my contempt for the Liberals and NDP and prompts this new posting. We all know that Gwyn Morgan, a man by all reports of high intelligence and moral character, great success, CEO of the Year, and an altogether admirable man was rejected by a 6 - 5 vote of a Commons committee considering whether his offer to head the new Parliamentary Appointments Commission for $1 a year should be approved.
Some months before in a speech in Calgary, Morgan had commented that immigrants from violent cultures sometimes bring that violence with them when they come to Canada. He referred to the notorious Jamaican drug dealer murderers in Toronto and the notorious Asian drug dealer gangsters in the West. Both the Jamaicans and the Asians have been written up many, many times in the media, and are a vivid part of the public consciousness throughout Canada.
Despite that, members of the Nerds and Dunces Party, the Libranos, and the Blockheads, played the racist card, claiming that Morgan was racist and unfit for the post because of those remarks.
Aside entirely from the venal, destructive, partisan politics of the political trash who supported this false allegation, it amounts to political correctness run amok. It is a clear example of the destructive nature of political correctness.
I once heard someone say that political correctness amounts to being polite to everyone, so what's wrong with that? What's wrong with that is that being polite is not what political correctness is all about. Political correctness is turning a blind eye to any defect, shortfall, failure or crime of a favoured group. It is about making excuses for everything about that favoured group. If a member of a favoured group, drops out of school, deals drugs, and kills people, political correctness demands that he not be seen as a bad person, but a victim of society's failure towards him.
Thus we see Paul Martin, a stupid weak little man and a thorough failure as Prime Minister, saying that the Jamaican gangsters who gunned down a teenage girl on a crowded Toronto street before Christmas, didn't do it because they are vicious murderers, they did it because they are "excluded" in our society. There was absolutely no evidence to that effect, and in fact there is ample evidence that these Jamaican killers are able to roam free and do what they want in our liberal society. The absence of any need for evidence and rejection of reality is another hallmark of the politically correct.
The damage that is done by political correctness is that it prevents any meaningful dealing with favoured groups. The favoured groups are coddled, excused, and never called to account, no matter how they behave.
Further damage is done when political correctness is used as a weapon against disfavoured groups - like successful, white males, as happened in the Gwyn Morgan fiasco.
Those who employ poliltical correctness fall into two groups. Those who haven't thought it through or are ignorant of the facts, but see the favoured group through rose coloured glasses and will hear no critcism of it. They may be well meaning, but do harm by their politically correct attitudes. No group should be immune to constructive and fair criticism. Constant indulgence will rot that group, just as too much sugar will rot your teeth.
The second group who employs political correctness are the sort of hypocritical liars that we saw on the Gwyn Morgan committee. These are people who have an axe to grind, and use political correctness to grind it. They know they are lying when they make their accusations of racism, but they know they can convince well meaning people because they claim to be morally righteous. The sheer cynicism of people like this is despicable.
Speaking of cynical and despicable people, the MPs who voted against Gwyn Morgan's appointment were:
Peggy Nash - Nerds and Dunces Party - Ontario
Joe Volpe - Libranos - Ontario
Omar Alghabra - Libranos - Ontario
Raymond Bonin - Libranos - Ontario
Caroline St. Hilaire - Blockheads - Quebec
Louise Thibeault - Blockheads - Quebec
These people are destructive trash, unworthy of any public office. It is probably too much to hope that the voters of Ontario and Quebec will end their political careers, but they should.
It seems to me that whenever political correctness rears its head in conversation, the person who raised it should be called on it. Slap those rose coloured glasses off his blinkered eyes. Hit him with facts. Reject his false excuses. Don't let the likes of Paul Martin get away with talking about "excusion" being the reason that ethnic drug dealers are killing innocent bystanders on our streets. Don't let political correctness cause us to lose worthy people in our public offices. Take that political correctness and shove it into a convenient orifice of the person employing it. That will probably be around behind, since the poliltically correct tend to be assholes.
posted by Brian Purdy, Calgary at 11:03 a.m.
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