Killing a mockingbird, the politically correct way…
(The PC brigade: Still in the mockingbird killing business…)
It’s a comforting fact that whatever change Obama will bring to America and the wider world, same world will never lack its more or less constant supply of fuckwits, dickheads and other assorted arseholes – and some of the stories that they generate are so familiar that they almost fail to register as the mindlessly moronic drivel that they are. Nor that they slowly yet surely threaten to engulf and poison the collective mind.
It’s no use to say that, to paraphrase Jesus, the morons will always be with us and that, at least, these PC imbeciles mean well – not as long as they continue to threaten the fundaments and fabric of our societies.
Terrorists may kill the odd few people – but as long as we take care not to overreact to these outrages, they can never do our societies any real or lasting harm. They can’t win, unless we decide to give them victory.
Not to belittle the grief of all families and friends who suffered the loss of someone killed in any terrorist attack but countless more people die on our roads, fiddling with their domestic electric appliances or through alcohol related accidents – and none of those, mostly avoidable deaths have ever threatened the existence or even the progress of our societies.
In truth, all the petty & vengeful Osama bin Ladens of this world are but nuisances and, as long as we keep a collective cool head, irrelevant nuisances at that.
It’s a pity that you can’t say the same about the insidious PC brigade. They keep gnawing at the very pillars of our societies, insisting that these are turned into a bland porridge like swamp, in which all words, all thoughts, all deeds must be censored and sterilised – until all creativity, all that inspires us and defines us and makes us human has been killed off.
As the following news story, again, abundantly makes clear.
How to kill a mocking bird indeed…:
An American English teacher has called for novels which use the word “nigger” to be removed from the high school curriculum now that Barack Obama has been elected president.
John Foley, who teaches at Ridgefield High School in southern Washington, believes classics of American literature such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men should no longer be required reading for students. “The time has arrived to update the literature we use in high school classrooms. Barack Obama is [president] of the United States, and novels that use the ‘N-word’ repeatedly need to go,” he wrote in an opinion piece for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “Some might call this apostasy; I call it common sense. Obama’s victory signals that Americans are ready for change. Let’s follow his lead and make a change that removes the N-word from the high school curriculum.”
He then goes on to say that he never wants “to rationalise Huck Finn to an angry African-American mom again as long as I breathe”.
Well, there’s a very easy solution to that problem. It comes with, let’s say, a twenty story building and the laws of gravity…
… or, failing that, a simple pretzel or two wet fingers & an electric socket may do the trick as well – either that or, less pleasingly perhaps, a simple resignation letter.
(Politically correct roadkill…?)
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