PC's Whacky Logic
This entry was posted on 5/1/2007 11:31 PM and is filed under Politics, Cultural Debate.
Following the aftermath of the Don Imus fallout and subsequent call for Reverend Al Sharpton to take an active role in cleaning up the lyrics in hip hop music; no doubt an embarrassment for Sharpton due to his lack of previous actions; the politically correct American Left in their quest for justice have deemed yet another word illegal from the American vernacular. The word is ‘wetback’, slang for Mexican and derived from swimming across the Rio Grande River would cause them to be wet. So bad is this word it now is being substituted for the phrase ‘the w-word’. This is laughable when the reader really thinks about it. Whether it is the ‘n-word’ or ‘w-word’ the implication still makes the reader think of the word and at least mentally say it to themselves. How much longer will it be until these phrases are also outlawed? Once the political correctness police, enforcers of anything but the truth and facts, take an inch the reader may as well give them a mile.
Now your author agrees with just about every decent American in stating that such derogatory words should not be acceptable. However what the American Left is attempting to do is force the reader to adhere to their value system. These are the same types that are first to react with the likes of the ACLU in tow when such issues as the use of Christmas as it relates to a holiday or office party or how the Boy Scouts of America conduct their matters. Once again focus on something that is trivial for the sake of a few, very few.
The politically correct American Left has never been too concerned about achievement but rather on intentions and desired goals, no matter how lofty or unrealistic these may be. No fanciful idealism rules their value system this along with creating greater divides within our society.
It is no wonder that this w-word has become an issue. It falls right on the heels of so-called immigration protests that were held in several cities. Our Constitution protects such action, which is all well and good, but fortunately by most estimates the turnouts were rather low. Your author always questions this type of an event. Your author ponders how many were there out of genuine concern and how many showed up just for the chance to be on television and get out of work for the day. Furthermore what is exactly that these groups wish to accomplish? Apparently what is now being touted is that families are being broken up because of INS raids that have swoop up illegal aliens, sending them back home. Now your author does have sympathy for these families that have been torn apart but don’t they share partial responsibility for these results? Are they now attempting, by their protests that immigration legislation does not apply to them because of their roles in a family unit? So as long as they are father or mother, assuming these are the targets that these protestors claim are being harassed, they receive a free pass. They are essentially above the law? This is beginning to sound like many of our elected officials in Congress and that being they are above the law.
Your author has never argued against the fact that illegal immigrants do fill a labor void. In fact the economic supply and demand slopes are clearly visible even to the blindest members of the American Left who protest capitalism. However does this mitigate the enforcement of federal law? It doesn’t but much like vocabulary the American Left will attempt to state it does. And when we give mothers and fathers of families who are illegal immigrants a pass, who will be the next to qualify for this special status? Will priests be allowed a pass because they serve a parish but are an illegal immigrant? What about day laborers who fill the economic supply slope? This is the problem with the American Left, once their flawed logic is in place it knows no ending or bounds.
