Saturday, April 14, 2007
Incivility and sensitivity
Paul Mirengoff got off a good one-liner last night: "Growing incivility of discourse coupled with hyper-sensitivity to insult isn't a good combination. This week's victory for civility was too circumscribed to signal a lasting set-back for the combination." Agreed. However, given the selectivity of the response to uncivil "discourse" of various sorts, one is forced to wonder whether all "sensitivity" is ingenuous.
2 Comments:
By 
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Sat Apr 14, 12:28:00 PM:
One of America's richest radio personalities--the aging, alcoholic antisemite Don Imus--has been suspended for two weeks for his on-air racist remarks. A good start. But only a start. Firing the piece of human feces would be more appropriate. In fact, in a healthy society a creep like Imus would be compelled to hide from humanity for the rest of his rotten, racist life.
Here's the story that the mainstream media is ignoring or chooses not to report: Away from the sanctuary of his studio, Imus has been known to joke about the Holocaust--laughing about lampshades and soap made from Jewish death camp inmates was an Imus favorite during his drunken years--and Ku Klux Klan lynchings. In recent days, he has been heard suggesting that a Jewish conspiracy is working overtime to lure the United States into attacking nuclearizing, Islamist Iran.
For more about Imus' antisemitism:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2535
By , at
Sat Apr 14, 03:26:00 PM:
Freedom of speech should trump any stupid racial sensitivity poppycock put out by the liberal wussietards
