It has long saddened me that we as Americans are loosing our ability to laugh at our selves. not too long ago I told an amputee and my friend said that was politically incorrect. to which i reminded him of two things, I’m an amputee and the joke was on me. sometimes we need to laugh at our selves and then things hurt less.
Let’me enlighten you. I agree, PC is harmful not helpful in all cases but, there is compassion and a place where you draw the line that you don’t cross. Out of respect for the other person. When you make fun of the learning disabled it’s never funny to them. In many cases they know they are retarded and they hate it. They want to be like everyone else and they are usually people pleasures, they want to be loved and they want to love. It hurts them, and they are defenseless and do not know how to react, it’s never funny, it is always hurtful and beyond cruel. They struggle, you wouldn’t believe the struggle. Many never live to see 50, most have seizures and other health problems. They are burdened more than any group of people I know and yet they are the most loving, forgiving and kind people I’ve ever known. LEAVE THEM ALONE, PERIOD.
Laughing at ourselves is one thing, making fun of a little boy born disabled is another. What did Trig do to warrant this kind of derision? Do these people hate Sarah Palin so much they are eagerly willing to savagely attack a defenseless baby? This is all truly sad.
....”we” need to laugh at “our selves” and then things hurt less...
As long as you laugh at yourself, and at your own expense, nobody is hurt. But the same is not true when you decide to laugh at others, at their expense, or other people decide to laugh at you, at your expense. One can not say he or she has a right to laugh at others but others have no right to feel offended - that they should just take a chill pill and it would make it hurt less. Liberals have built the PC culture around such arguments and they hold even their opponents accountable to it. But in a rage to mock the Palins, liberals are violating every one of their own PC codes and taboos. Palins are having fun exposing every one of them!
Liberals would be appalled if Obama’s family and children were to be mocked or politicized or subjected to media. They are off-limit, liberals would assert. Than how come Palin’s family is not off-limit? For liberals, everything is a fair game, and they are exempt from all rules.