Political Correctness gone mad - again
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/22/rice.slur.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
Ok, this is nuts. Just nuts. How can this be interpreted as hate speech? Or even dislike speech? It's not even cranky speech! It was obviously an accident in the middle of heaping praise on a very succesful woman that Lenihan has great respect for. He didn't even say "black" he said "African American"! And yet "NAACP chapter president Harold Crumpton commended Dorsey for his swift action."
"KTRS president and general manager Tim Dorsey agreed the remark was accidental but said it was nonetheless "unacceptable, reprehensible and unforgivable."" How can it be "accidental " and "reprehensible"?
That's good. Thanks. This will be one more incident where people will shake thier heads and say "See? This whole hate speech thing is overblown." And the next time somebody says something seriously and actually wrong (I don't know, maybe "Bush doesn't give a damn about black people"?) then people will equate this pretend hate with that actual hate and come to the conclusion that "Well, the radio thing was silly and frivolous, so maybe this latest 'outrage' is too."
http://www.ktrs.com/ is the web address of the radio station if you're interested. General Manager, Tim Dorsey: timd@ktrs.com
(Heh, I'm writing like people are reading this.)
2 comments:
(Heh, I'm writing like people are reading this.)
If you write it...they will come!
Hey look, you have an audience now! ;)
Just one more example of political correctness gone mad, I think--sometimes I wonder how, if people react to things that are obviously unintentional, how they're ever going to get us to take them seriously about the problems that are still out there; it's crying wolf gone mad.
I AM over here! =) Just took me awhile...but it'll be lots easier after Lent.
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