Juan Williams and Political Correctness Run Amok
What happens when a society becomes more concerned with political correctness than with accepting people truthfully acknowledging their different views? People are branded as racist bigots, denigrated, and may even lose their jobs.
Juan Williams is a prominent public example, due to his honest statement of his feeling worried when he is on an airplane with individuals who prominently identify themselves “first and foremost as Muslims” (1). Mr. Williams began his statement by saying he was not a bigot, and explained that his feelings were a result of September 11, and the comments by the Times Square attacker at his sentencing. It is important to read the whole transcript or watch the video (2) for the entirety of his appearance on “The Factor,” as Mr. Williams continued on to say that Americans need to be aware of stereotyping, on guard against violating others’ Constitutional rights, and to not make rash jumps to judgment.
What was so offensive in the statements Mr. Williams made? Perhaps this quote, “Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don’t address reality” (2). He was honest about his feelings – feelings which are shared by many others around the world. The feelings of apprehension are not solely the result of September 11. There have been many attempts at inflicting mass casualties on American soil in the past nine years:
Fort Dix Six – 2007
JFK airport / fuel lines / grenade launcher plots – 2007
Goose Creek, SC (SPAWAR and brig) – 2007
Bronx Synagogue bombing plot – 2009
Najibullah Zazi – 2009
North Carolina Boyd cell – 2009
Arkansas recruiting station – 2009
Fort Hood murders – 2009
Underwear bomber – 2009
Threat by Revolution Muslim against South Park creators – 2010
Times Square bombing – 2010
Also, the international news coverage of the bombing in Bali, bombing in Spain, the Beslan school massacre, the murders of Theo Van Gogh and Pim Fortunyn (3), the London 7-7 bombings, the attempted car bombings of a London nightclub and Scottish airport, threats and attack on cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and his granddaughter, and the travel warnings issued by the US State Department are in the minds of many Americans. These events all have one thing in common: a particular religious ideology. Are people wrong to openly admit feeling apprehensive by prominent displays of Islam? Does political correctness make the problem disappear? Should we all just ignore our feelings, and place complete trust in our government bureaucracies to keep us safe? Would that work?
Well, I am just royally ticked off, and am leaving in a huff…….
Just kidding!
TTYL!
Gregg, did you get a desktop or a laptop for home?
Grabbed a Compaq desktop. Just couldn’t handle a laptop!
Couldn’t handle? And you accuse ME of being old. Geez, my dad has a laptop dude!
But you’re talking to somebody that doesn’t have a cell phone!
It’s just that ability to get away from everything that I like, if I had a stupid laptop, I’d be too tempted to take it with me when I cruise. Don’t need the ball and chain! 
So I take it you’re not married?
That would be correct!
Courtesy of Kelli:
Bwa!!! Ha! Ha! Ha!
…. Ok , thats funny !!!!!!
Hey guys. I read the 5000 year leap this weekend. Awesome book. If anyone wants to read it, let me know and I’ll send it to you.
I read it a while back. LH told me the guy who wrote it was a radical nutjob. Go figure.
Have you read Saving Freedom yet?
Nope. Not yet. Democracy in America is next. I also read a good chunk of Sacred Heart. I had a hard time getting into that one, but after 60 or so pages, you get the jist of it.
Saw someone reading that over the weekend. I’m curious about it, so yes, I might be interested!
You have my e-mail. Send me your address and I’ll send it out tomorrow.
Just read this, part of a NBC poll. I think they’re on drugs, or just that stressed about the election. Note the 80 Seat House referenee towards the end…
Why the GOP is headed for big gains:
And why are Republicans headed for big gains? Check out these numbers: Among the 60% who believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, more than 70% of them prefer a GOP-controlled Congress; just 19% of them prefer a Dem-held Congress. Given these numbers, the assumption by many analysts and strategists from BOTH parties is that the undecided vote ends up breaking toward the Republicans, so the six-point advantage that translates to a gain of 50-55 seats could end up being a nine-point advantage tomorrow — and that would put the GOP pick-ups over 60 seats. Then again, it would still mean the Republicans would have a smaller majority than the Democrats currently enjoy in the House. For Republicans to equal the current Democratic majority, Republicans would need a pickup of nearly 80 seats in the House.
Well technically that’s correct. I think you call that reaching for anything you can to claim some modest victory.
So, it’s NBC’s version of spinning. Interesting. 39 required for a majority, less than 80 a defeat.
I’m at home because my water heater needed replacement , ugh !!!! but I just heard on Fox , that Christine O’Donnell paid for TWO 30 minute ads for TV that Never aired . More info to come , but thats the start of what they are reporting .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2618847/posts
The source, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive campaign operations, said the station “forgot to air it.”……
Well, if the Media reports it there. I would think that she would get a lot mileage from it. Could work just as well for her, if not even better. Americans are getting more and more intolerant of these type of things.
I just finished reading Pinheads and Patriots. Not bad, first of O’Reilly’s books I’ve read and he’s a pretty entertaining author. Gives Obama a pretty fair shake overall.
Helloo.
on the way home heard on local radio, Christine O’D bought two 30 min adds on local radio station and they forgot to air them. FORGOT 2 times. Hmmmmmmmmm
Details here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/01/AR2010110102898.html?sid=ST2010110102963
very suspicious…don’t you think?
Lefties? Your opinion?
It will translate to votes, for O’Donnell…
Wag the Dog?
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/11/01/the-broder-doctrine/1
Is this the kind of thing Obama would attempt? What would it take to get him to contemplate this kind of thing?
Kelli in SC says:
November 1, 2010 at 12:29 pm
I thought we were racists and haters?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/black-conservative-numbers-grow-era-obama/story?id=12018123
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“Absolutely, and if you believe in conservative government, if you believe in free market capitalism, if you believe in not spending money you don’t have, you’re a tea party member as well,” Scott says.
” The latest polls in South Carolina show Scott far ahead of his opponent, Democrat Ben Frasier, in a district where white voters outnumber blacks three to one.
If Scott wins, he would be the first black Republican Congressman from the deep south since 1901."
GO SCOTT GO!! GO SCOTT GO!!! YAYYYYYY!!!!
This is exactly the kind of thing that will get the marxist’s panties in a bunch.
Gratifying to see some minorities break out of the box the left has put them in.
Excellent. Glad to see it. Republicans never get enough credit when it comes to these things.
Robin, we are ecoing each others…
Did you already post this I. ?? sorry ! Its getting very close to alarm , at how our system is manipulated
I posted a minute or so after you did. Kind of slow typing with left hand… I think it was done intensionally.
But still. Combined with the military voting scandal, and now this. Americans will be hearing about it BIG TIME tonight. The time of Chicago Politics and the stealing of elections is over. Even some of the Left have to be concerned. The very fabrics of our beliefs are being torned away. And by no means, at the slowest of paces. There’s no fundamental change in any of this, it’s a friggin revolution against the people.
John Galt says:
November 1, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Have you read Saving Freedom yet?
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that’s the book i was reading on my flights to Vegas!! the one i was reading when the old guy next to me said “that’s the wrong book to be reading next to me”…
Ah yes, I remember that. Did you like the book, or did you throw it at him and not get a chance to finish?
and i do like the book…been interrupted now that a new class has started
http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/10/29/seniors-going-destitute-because-of-credit-card-bills/
is this the change seniors voted for?? Actually, this is partially seniors fault….we ppl need to learn to live off what we make. But we need JOBS to make sure we can make anything
New post up top …
I can’t view this at work, but it looks like it will be funny.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/01/five-signs-your-campaign-is-toast/you-ve-given-away-your-campaign-chest.html
No, it’s a serious ad, but I like the tone of it.
OMG…is this typical of the kind of people who vote for leftists?
“Is Obama a keynesian?”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/stewart-rally-goers-obama-isnt-keynesian-he-was-born-hawaii_513499.html
Ok, perhaps the longest article I’ve ever posted…but a MUST READ for everybody. I am doing both the progressives and the conservatives here a favor by posting this. I think this man has done the best job I’ve ever seen in describing the primary driver of who it is in America that wins elections for one side or the other…and more importantly, WHY they are the ones who win elections for one side or the other.
Conservs…if you don’t read this- shame on you.
Progs…if you don’t read this- well….you get what you deserve.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/251670/day-democratic-dead-henry-olsen?page=1
Regarding America’s system of checks and balances:
“How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping? … Power and strict accountability for its use are the essential constituents of good government… It is, therefore, manifestly a radical defect in our federal system that it parcels out power and confuses responsibility as it does. The main purpose of the Convention of 1787 seems to have been to accomplish this grievous mistake. The “literary theory” of checks and balances is simply a consistent account of what our Constitution makers tried to do; and those checks and balances have proved mischievous just to the extent which they have succeeded in establishing themselves.”
Woodrow Wilson – 28th President and father of the American progressive movement. – 1885
Go figure …
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