But that is precisely the point you RacistHomophobicIslamophobicSexistAblistPrivilegedBiblehumper
… HOW DARE YOU STAND IN THE WAY of the bright, egalitarian, utopian future with your old-fashioned, risible Western Civ devotion to ideals
Elizabeth Bierenday, a junior at Pilgrim High School in Warwick, was asked to create a mural for the school.
She sketched a mural that showed the growth of a boy into adulthood. The last image showed a man with a woman and child and wedding rings over their heads.
Bierenday showed the school’s assistant principal the sketches, which were approved.
Bierenday said she started to paint the mural last week, when an assistant principal came to her with a problem.Some people at the school felt the mural didn’t accurately represent many students at Pilgrim and school officials decided to paint over the right side. […]
On Friday, Bierenday spoke with John DePetro on WPRO-AM about the mural and said she was told that her original design may be offensive or a religious symbol.
Schools who want an image to represent every student take a class photo and frame it on a wall.
But, of course, the “accurately represent” is not the real problem. Note no one is “offended” it depicts a boy when so many students are girls, nor offended by the pallor of the boy, nor by his choice of childhood activities (OMG piano players might be offended he is shown playing a guitar!) What “offends” is the depicted ideal of a child growing to aspire to marriage and children.
And the family unit of two opposite-sex, biological parents, raising their own children is a threat to Big Nannystate Government. Every measurable has demonstrated how Western marriage benefits the individuals involved, so the hostility towards it from all factions of the authoritarian Left comes from the realization that marriage stands in the way of its goals — creating a herd population depended on Government.
So what’s wrong with bullying a 17 year old student artist when such a Glorious Future is to be had?
Nice to know schools have time to waste when it comes to upbraiding a student about a mural. Or that the assistant principal has time to be involved in such nonsense.
They’re government schools, Blake. Concrete block institututions of values. They have nothing but time.
This ‘politically correct’ business has always mystified me. You’re supposed to swallow any and all BS across the board meekly and without resistance because…they say so? Are their words gags and chains that force you to submit?
My personal experience with this garbage has always been to get right in it’s grill and tell it, and the person pushing it , to go screw. They shrink before my eyes, and scurry off to find a more pliable target.
The people who push this crap work off the assumptions that a) it is so because they say so, and b) you are so gutless and feeble that you can’t think or speak for yourself.
It’s just a puff of smoke. Blow on it, and it disappears.
The outrage expressed by the victims of this censorship is encouraging. Starting with the artist’s firm disclaimer.
It has a long and storied history.
That newscaster fellow reminds of Grandpa Munster. #NTTAWWT
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/14/orrin-hatch-may-just-punch-you-in-the-mouth/
The feeling is mutual Orrin.
Seems like everybody is offended but me.
I feel so left out.
And if you don’t get the message, there is always direct action.
You cannot think that traditional marriage should be preserved. And if that means the Gay Mafia has to leak your IRS filings, well, twinkle-fingers, fabulous.
It was political correctness at UW-Madison in the late 70’s; today it is thoughtcrime.
A couple of comments this morning have not gone through.
Incrementalism. It works. Unfortunately it only seems to work moving left. This is something you must not point out to Practical Republicans if you don’t want to be branded as unserious and childish. It’s merely acknowledging reality, of course, but why let realism disturb the careers of politicians?
I think you nail it on the head, George. When the folks who are supposed to be on our side are aiding and abetting the opposition either passively by not standing up to them, or taking slaps at us for being ‘unhelpful’, it sure makes it easy for the dems to push any and all manner of garbage.
I don’t even think that our “allies” want to aid the opposition. They are not incorrect to say we can’t change things without winning elections, and you have to pander to people who disagree with you to win them. It is, however, equally true that if we look at the direction and size of the State over the last one hundred years, at virtually no time has it ever ceased to grow and move left, to become more onerous and more hidebound with rules and laws and regulations, to promise some citizens more and more loot out of other citizens’ pockets. So, color me unimpressed with the Right’s successes in the political arena, on the scale of our lifetime.
The problem is no longer political. It’s cultural. Until our “allies” start making the argument against Leviathan, and making it seriously, why would anyone expect the larger culture to change its mind?
I still remember when and how I first encountered thephrase “politically correct.” It was during the latter part of the ’80s; a conservative student at Sac State was berating the radical Leftist (even by 2012 standards) editor of the school paper in some written forum, and described her behavior as that of “a politically correct adolescent.”
As a descriptive it was absolutely perfect — I had no doubt whatsoever what meaning was intended. In fact, it hadto be the most politically incorrect use of “politically correct” I have seen before or since.
I hope that guy has gone on to great success in all his endeavors.
Zombie on ““Teaching as a Subversive Activity”: The Theory of Political Indoctrination”
That’s scary awesome, geoffb. I think that deserves a stand alone post.
RI is becoming a veritable hotbed of idiocy.
Homeschool if you can.
Sort of an inverse of the dispute over the mural Diego Rivera painted at Rockerfeller Center.
Except it is all wrong now.
“Political correctness is ruining America”
Well yes! That was the idea after all.
For a handy summary refresher on that point, see the two videos The Right Scoop has kindly posted, dealing directly with the source and creation of political correctness as a tool of destruction.