Jonah Goldberg: The black hole of extreme political correctness
At a recent meeting of city officials in Dallas County, Texas, a small racial brouhaha broke out. County commissioners were hashing out difficulties with way the central collections office handles traffic tickets. Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield found himself guilty of talking while white. He observed that the bureaucracy “has become a black hole” for lost paperwork.
Fellow Commissioner John Wiley Price took great offense, shouting, “Excuse me!” That office, the black commissioner explained, has become a “white hole.”
Seizing on the outrage, Judge Thomas Jones demanded that Mayfield apologize for the “racially insensitive analogy,” in the words of the Dallas Morning News’ City Hall Blog.
Houston Chronicle science blogger Eric Berger notes that everyone should be “very glad that the central collections office has not become a white hole, a theoretical object that ejects matter from beyond its event horizon, rather than sucking it in. It wouldn’t be fun for Dallas to find itself so near a quasar.”
Maybe so, but speaking metaphorically, if it were a white hole, that might suggest central collections was actually doing its job, ejecting paperwork in a timely fashion.
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Jonah Goldberg: The black hole of extreme political correctness
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I am sure when Obama is elected he will pass hate crime laws in order to “protect the children” and pro-white racialist websites will be illegal.
Looking at the facial expression on Obama’s supporters I have always been worried because I have seen that expression somewhere. Oh, I know! Its the same expression and behavior the zombies have in all the Resident Evil movies.
Jefferson talked about the “consent of the governed” Perhaps its high time the white middle class, who is forced to support all this multiracial mania anyway via taxes, withdraws its consent. Should we learn to practice “Consent Withdrawal?”
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You’ve cited one example of one person behaving like an idiot, and come to the following conclusions:
“The left uses Western society’s admirable desire not to offend to bludgeon competing ideas and arguments. Inconvenient facts are ridiculed as “insensitive.” Refusal to go along with the multicultural agenda, for example, is cast as a sign of backwardness and bigotry”
This in itself is almost as ridiculous as someone complaining about the use of the term “black hole”.