“amish” comment
The amish comment was once directed at the crimes or abominations perpetrated by muslims in the name of allah.
Mainly because the press would never name the religion, or name, of the perp.
The term has been hijacked to fill in for inner city thugs.
With this, only, I agree with you.
I abhor political correctness, euphemisms and the misuse of language. I make a point to never use the term "gay" when applicable to homosexuality. The traditional meaning of the word (cheerful, joyful and merry) have been misappropriated by the sodomite lobby.
Similarly the use of "Amish" (though it's used in a tongue in cheek sense here on FR) is likewise off base. For the most part, the actual Amish are law-abiding, hard-working people who may annoy some when behind one of their slow-moving buggies. But sullying those mostly good people, even in jest with a wink and nod, by using that term as code is the height of being politically correct in our language. Can we not be honest and use the term black, white, Mexican, Asian or whatever is apt when it applies to feral thugs? And when the Amish turn a city into a shooting gallery as black gangs did this weekend in Chicago, let me know.
It is appropriate it has been “hijacked” for inner city youts.
Because the press often never directly identifies the race of the criminal as well. But in almost all of these stories, you can generally figure it out by names, or other information. Sometimes people post the same story but from another news agency and they have a picture or other identifying info the original story didn’t.
I don't agree at all, the Amish statements were obvious attempts at sarcasm....totally harmless, meaningless, nonsense!
RE “amish” comments.
Actually I see these comments as resistance against the left/media always shoving down our throats the lie that the larger proportion of crimes in this country are by NOT by blacks and almost all terrorists are NOT muslim. Out of reverse racism we’re supposed to pretend the truth isn’t the truth. And we’re supposed to ignore this for fear of being called “racist”. The amish comments are a sly way of speaking the truth, something the OP claims to believe is most important i.e. if Stalin loved kittens or Lincoln fried ants.
I have no problem with the amish comments.