This is usually Jeff’s beat, but Oh.Good.Lord. A group of students at a California high school basketball game were told to remove patriotic bandanas and stop chanting “USA, USA” because school administrators wanted to be sensitive to other spectators. […] The incident occurred during a basketball last week between Camarillo High School and Rio Mesa High School in Ventura County. A school administrator pulled aside four boys and told them
political correctness
February 13, 2013
“Whether that’s the implied intent, that’s the way it comes across” [Darleen Click]
July 13, 2012
Phrase ‘Kitchen Cabinent’ is racist. Really? [Darleen Click]
Really. MSNBC guest, Mark Thompson, beclowns himself. The political term “kitchen cabinet” was coined in the early 1800s to describe the group of informal advisers around President Andrew Jackson. According to a guest on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” on Wednesday, however, the term is “culturally insensitive.” Mark Thompson, host of SiriusXM’s “Make It Plain,” told host Lawrence O’Donnell that Mitt Romney should not have used the term
April 14, 2012
“Political Correctness is ruining America” [Darleen Click]
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