When P.C. Runs Amok

When P.C. Runs Amok

 

Officials at Brooks Elementary School in Newnan, Ga. have banned birthday cupcakes, birthday cookies, indeed, any goodies associated with birthdays because they are worried that kids with food allergies might feel sad and excluded. They made no mention of whether young boys and girls at Brooks could feel sad over being unable to share their special days with classmates or whether anyone had complained about the long tradition.

At Dyer County High School in Tennessee, senior Kendra Turner graciously said “Bless you” in violation of a class rule when another student sneezed and was rebuked by her teacher for using language reserved for church.  The teacher added that “godly speaking” was verboten in her class and Ms. Turner courageously responded that it was her constitutional right to say what she did, was remanded to the principal’s office, and was promptly suspended from school.

The Fresno Unified School District hired Peter Beck to teach three cultural studies classes in its new Rutherford B. Gaston Middle School since Mr. Beck was deemed the best qualified candidate for the position.  Some local Fresno residents objected, not on the basis of his qualifications or the content of his character but due to the color of his skin with activist Rev. Karen Crozier explaining, ”We’re just saying what the community wants. We didn’t fight for a white male or female teacher to educate our babies.”

However the birthday cupcake fiasco in Georgia, the mini-constitutional crisis in Tennessee, and the black bigotry in California eventually play out is somewhat irrelevant.  The overriding issue is when Americans’ patient tolerance of intolerant political correctness in our schools and society will wear out?

Were P.C. extremes confined to three states, they would still be unacceptable but, in fact, the insidious disease of political correctness is pervasive in America and goes far beyond birthday cupcakes, religious freedom, and agitators clamoring for racially exclusionary rights. 

A brain child of liberal-leftists, political correctness was originally conceived as an effort to forcibly impose their standards with regards to correct language usage and their views on ideas and policies regarding any sort of discrimination against designated “protected classes,” such as gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age and disability.

Most likely by design, P.C. has devolved into a sickness infecting virtually every facet of American life, extending even into our nation’s immigration policies, our domestic policies, and our international relations.

For example, we have been conditioned by politically correct fanatics to willingly accept . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38664.)