Whitey, learn to keep your mouth shut

timesonline.co.uk ^ | April 14, 2007 | Alan Davieson

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It isn't ’t. It’s jocular guy trash that doesn’t really mean anything. Guys, especially under 35 yrs old, do it constantly.

Not the same thing at all, and even if it was, that wouldn't make it right. My best friend and I sling homosexual epithets at each other all the time. Are they still slurs? Yes. Would it be OK for a homosexual to kick my butt if he heard me use those words? Yes. Would my boss have the right to fire me if I talked like that on company time? OF COURSE. But your argument is a strawman because it ignores the distinctions between private and public, selected audience and random audience, and affection and indifference.

As it happens, nobody cared when Imus called black, male basketball players “breast beating pimps”.

I didn't care because I never listen to him. He really said that? That's only a little less bad, and only confirms what a jerk he is.

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There is a single factor explanation for this trumped up tempest in a chamber pot orgy of wailing and victimization bathos that is now approaching self-parody. The politically correct and corrupt are divorced from the idea of confronting offensive stupidity with eternal truth and rationality, but prefer to hector with bullying threats, speech codes, and the implied corrective of the re-education camp. The latter is held out as the only approved penance to allow the sinner to reenter polite society. Today offenses against political correctness seem to be the last public sin. No longer do abortion, homosexuality, disloyalty to nation in a time of war, public display of vulgarity of the basest kind (unless aimed at an approved minority ala Imus) count as iniquities to be vigorously condemned. Instead, affronts to self-esteem are the worst sort of tort that CANNOT be tolerated in any context. (As long as you aren’t Christian, male, white or all three preferably)

Imus breathes in the same air as the rest of us, air that has been suffused with the smog of cultural decay from innumerable sources, most notably the patois of gansta rap, and he got a contact high from it, and we know how intoxication impairs your judgement. Imus is aware that the American culture is a stew of numerous ethnic influences, and we are generally free to sample from them as we wish. But he ran afoul of the rules established by the Politically Correct multiculturalists, who evermore are establishing a new regime of Balkenazation, not one based on racial segregation and racism, but on racial identity and speech codes. Only the anointed are allowed to sample certain items from that PC menu. Imus was not a made man just because he flashed liberal credentials.