Please believe me I'm more supportive than you might know of your disdain for the sensibilities of Muslims. But in my case, I hold that disdain not because of something intrinsic in the character of Muslims (although I would agree the a bunch of them as a group are pretty egregiously nasty lot-but when it comes to killing souls by the tens of millions they cannot hold a patch to, for example, Communists) but because I treasure our right to offend.
So I wonder is your disdain for Muslim sensibilities peculiar to Muslims or would you support offensiveness to African Americans, Jews, high church Episcopalians, Scientologists or undocumented Latino immigrants as I would? Early this morning European time a post came along in which it described the suspension of a teacher because she characterized an African-American child's hair as, "nappy." Here is what I posted this morning:
It is noteworthy that are beleaguered teacher pled not justification in her defense, but ignorance. It is noteworthy because it reveals how far into the swamps of subjectivism that political correctness has led us. This is a major concession. It says that it matters not what the plain meaning of the English language is but what matters is only the subjective reaction of a favored class. The teacher did not say, "I stand here upon my rights and be damned" she said in effect, "I have no rights, I am too unworthy to have rights, I can only plead ignorance."
I recall vaguely that a city official of Washington, DC was forced out of a position of responsibility because the African-American "community" was ignorant of the plain meaning of the English-language word, "niggardly." Now we see the same kangaroo court applied for the use of the word, "nappy."
Subjectivism is a deadly disease made more virolent by political correctness when it invests in favored groups the power arbitrarily to exercise mind control over groups (like whites) who are unfavored because they do not qualify as victims. Maybe we need a little bit of the fairness doctrine in real life.
So should we offend Muslims because they are unworthy or because it is vital to a healthy democracy that we be permitted to exercise our rights to free speech, or both if you like? Even Hitchens in his article took pains to demonstrate that Muslims are unworthy of our solicitude. I agree. Muslims seek to it achieve mind control through intimidation and minority groups in America pursue the same goal by claiming victim status.
I thought Hitchens was I pub crawling, brawling, polemicist. Why does he find it necessary to tell us that Muslims have it coming?
