A politically incorrect truth that will never be spoken by the Jacksons, Sharptons, or network or corporate bigwigs, is that it is now sacrilege to portray blacks, Jews, Muslims, or Gays, in a negative light. The two groups that they will allow to be insulted, persecuted, and harassed without fear of penalty, are Christians and middle-age white males.
A silly but telling example of this fear-driven political correctness can be seen by watching any commercial for any home alarm company. All of the attempted crimes on screen are only committed by idiotic white males. Every single one of them. Such is the terror these companies feel at the thought of being attacked and/or shaken down by the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons of the world.
Another example that is personal to me, is that as a child, I often lived and went to school in very poor, black and minority neighborhoods. Even though that was my life experience and even though my columns often run in the largest newspapers in the country, as a white writer, I’m not allowed to comment on the “black” experience that played out around me. Conversely, as demanded by political correctness, black writers and columnists are allowed and in fact, encouraged, to write on any subject.
Political correctness not only brutally censors necessary free speech, but prevents us, as a people, from engaging in a dialog that can only lead to common ground and understanding. The Imus episode has enabled the armies of political correctness like nothing before. All the while, opening a Pandora’s box that is spewing out a partisan hatred meant to stamp out any thought not sanctioned by the left.
Don’t necessarily blindly buy into the theory that “humans are responsible for global warming?” Be prepared to be burned at the stake as a heretic by the disciples of political correctness.
Prefer to keep the United States as our Founding Fathers envisioned, while defending the practice of traditional values? Be prepared to be hunted down and exposed by those rumored to be quietly working to make our Republic part of the “North American Union.”
Host a “conservative” radio program, print one of the handful of “conservative” newspapers in the country, or work for the Fox News Channel? Be prepared to be targeted by those on the left not satisfied with controlling the top 100 newspapers in the country, as well as the three main networks and all but one of the cable networks. Amazingly, that list now includes the left-leaning Weather Channel.
The Sharptons, Jacksons, and pushers of political correctness, have figured out something destined to doom those who embrace all truths, traditional values, and a United States that should stand apart in a world gone mad. That being, that most Americans who truly believe in these simple but desperately needed principles, will not fight for them.
Either because of fear, ignorance of what is at stake, or a misplaced belief that someone else will man the ramparts in our defense, we seem to have thrown in the towel. Clearly, the far left believes that we are waving the white flag, and all that is left for them to do is bayonet the wounded and reshape the former United States.
The Imus firing is that proverbial line in the sand that we all must confront one day. If we don’t cross it and fight tooth and nail for sanity and what we know to be right, then the haters and twisters of truth and values, will triumph.
Imus be damned. It’s time to save yourself and your country.