In a so-called “modern” world where Tolerance™ and Acceptance™ are championed as the principle values, the parade of hysteria directed at those that have offended others defies common sense and parody.
Nothing quite demonstrates the idiocy of the anti-gun progressives as a brain-dead Government school confiscating cupcakes because they are decorated with toy soldiers.
The school principal branded the military-themed cupcakes “insensitive” in light of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, reports Fox News Radio.
Which makes perfect sense since a psychotic mass-murderer is easily confused with 3″ high US soldiers.
Then again, CA Senator Feinstein isn’t the only one that believes military personnel are too brain-damaged to be trusted with firearms (h/t geoffb)
During Friday’s marathon gun control hearing in the Colorado Senate, Republican Sen. Kent Lambert offered an amendment to exempt active military members, veterans and their families from the gun magazine ban.
Enter Sen. Mary Hodge, a disgraceful Dem who urged fellow lawmakers to oppose the exemption because “some of them come back with significant mental health problems.”
And if toy soldiers cause offense, some want to make sure the real ones stay hidden, too.
For 15 years she has proudly served her country as a Royal Navy engineer, risking her life in Afghanistan when she fought against the Taliban.
But far from showing Nicky Howse the respect she deserved as she flew back to her latest posting, Virgin Atlantic staff chose to humiliate her – by demanding that she remove her uniform because it was ‘offensive’.
They warned the 32-year-old helicopter technician she would not be allowed to fly unless she took off her combat fatigues and wore a sleep suit instead.
It isn’t always about icky guns and the dangerous morons who actually have them that causes offense, there ought to be a law about offensive use of a font, too.
A Vermont newspaper defended itself Saturday against accusations of racism over a poster it published in support of a local sports team that read “fry Rice” in type associated with Chinese calligraphy, saying it meant no offense and simply wanted to play on words. […]
“A fair accusation of racism would at least pre-require the reference to actually be demeaning or degrading,” the editorial said. “Simply invoking ethnic customs (food, dress, design) doesn’t do that, nor does it suggest any kind of characteristic about the culture, its people or a history of oppression by the majority.
But the editorial missed the point, said the president of the Asian American Journalists Association, who had criticized the poster after it was published.
“I’m not criticizing the Caledonian Record for rooting for their home team,” said Paul Cheung, the association’s president. While Cheung does not believe the newspaper’s intention was to be racist, it showed “a lapse of judgment and poor taste.”
“It evoked a racial undertone and a negative stereotype,” said Cheung, who is also interactive and graphics editor for The Associated Press.
Oh.my.heavens!
holy confiscated cupcakes baman we got a monster on our hands
Chinese people eating rice isn’t a negative stereotype. Not being able to speak Engrish well enough to know this is.
hmm
mr. cheung puts a slant on the poster issue that me I just don’t see
Someone needs to remind this principle that a society isn’t truly free until everyone is evenly mockable.
Like him/her for instance.
Institutionalized Political Correctness.
I remember when PC was a fad, and a few years later when the same proponents claimed it had never existed. Kind of a warning sign, that.
Pravda on the Potomac, goes that extra mile to generate racial outrage.
Slight problem; victim and confessed killer both same race. But for the WaPo, Mississippi Goddamn.
Sounds like they might have also both been gay and it was a crime of passion, SW.
In which case the media would have a lot of apologizing to do.
Well, if they had any sense of honesty, responsibility or shame.
someone in the sheriff’s department should ask Lawrence Reed what happened I think
BMoe, the WaPo is in there painting this like Emmett Till, with unsubstantiated claims from the victim’s family that “McMillian had been “beaten, dragged and burned (set afire)”. This comes as news to the coroner. This is what passes for journalism these days. The WaPo apologise? What a quaint idea.
Like Asians are the arbiters of judgment and taste.
Some of these people whining should go get a life.
What’s Anne Hull of the WaPo up to then? Merely reporting the paranoias of local folk regarding their own unhappy misfortunes and personal loss, or shoehorning ancient history into a story in order to prepare the ground for protest of the coming Supreme Court decision on the arbitrary effects of the Voting Rights Act case?
speaking of virgin Sir Richard Branson is one of the ugliest motherfuckers I ever seen on tv my whole entire life
he’s truly fucking hideous like someone walloped the holy crap outta that boy with the ugly stick
I suspect you are bang on the money, sdferr. “We must have more stories with a racial angle”! “What do you mean there is no racial angle”? “Make one”!
Not that I’ve got (or had) any particular truck with Nina Simone — either pro or con — but that song (which I’ve only heard for the first time just now) is musically dull beyond belief.
Nina Simone Sings The Blues is a wonderful album.
Thanks for the tip SW, I’m giving it a listen.
The school principal branded the military-themed cupcakes “insensitive”
… but you see these “soldiers” are really “green eco terrorists” who fight for the environment. Just how could insensitive school official not under stand this ?
ancient chinese secret
Greetings:
That Cheung guy, his first name isn’t Ching, is it ???
We’re separating you out as villains, treating you like shit, and intimidating you to put and end to bullying, discrimination, and violence! QED!
ot about those 2700 mraps
link
my ?: the congress appropriated funds in a budget for the dod to purchase the mraps. the executive branch then transfers them to dhs. what’s to stop baracky from transferring abrams tanks or submarines from dod to dhs? how about a aircraft carrier or a b2 bomber?
“Living in a democratic society entails respect for opposing opinions,” the principal also said. “Except when the opinion offends ME, then I can ban speech and shit on little boys trying to share a cupcake. I’m a fascist like that.”
There, FIFY.
Speaking of Insults:
Michelle Antoinette gets her party while Whitehouse tour groups have none.
Meanwhile Rome is burning and…
Yeah I mixed analogies, so sue me ;^)
His Nibs is still going golfing, too.
Screw those little kids and smelly tourists who want to tour the White House.
“Living in a democratic society entails respect for opposing opinions,”
Demonstrably false. Living in a democratic society means ginning up enough of an opinion-mob to crush the opposing opinions. “Respect” for opposing opinions is at best only a potentially useful gambit to draw support to your side from the ranks of the “can’t we all just get along” crowd.
There are voters out there (somewhere, statistically) in favor of killing all the Jews and reinstating the Third Reich. Does the High Church of Polite Liberal Society demand we respect their opinions as well? Is there an opinion so absolutely beyond the pale that even school principals will be able to say “screw you and your idiotic opinion, that’s just wrong“?
Other than traditional pre-progressive American Judeo/Christian beliefs, that is.
uh-oh we got a couple stupid bimbos on our hands what need to get a job alert