Posted on 06/15/2015 4:10:53 AM PDT by HomerBohn
CNN’s Don Lemon endured a liberal backlash when he dared to mention the smell of marijuana smoke in Ferguson last year. He was named the worst reporter of the year by several left-leaning news watchdogs, and many in the media saw him as a traitor to the cause.
Perhaps it was being raked over the coals for something so incidental and unimportant that inspired Lemon to think about how insidious the PC culture has become. Lemon, whose status as both black and gay should be enough to shield him from most liberal critics, said on Black America Web that Jerry Seinfeld had a point. Seinfeld made headlines this week when he decried how sensitive and absurd college kids were getting when it came to terms like racism. Lemon agrees. “Do you allow room in your space for those who disagree with you?” he asked.
“Do you ever call coworkers or the person you hear on the radio or see on TV stupid because you disagree with them or because they don’t hold your same opinion about an issue? If so, then you might be too politically correct for your own good, for society’s good.”
Lemon went on to advise that Americans “stop looking for reasons to be offended.” Instead, he said, we should give people the benefit of the doubt when they are wrong. Let them make mistakes in their speech “without calling them racist, bigots, stupid, dumb, sell-outs and on and on.” But it was his closing rant that left liberals in shock. “After almost 25 years in the news business, you know who is the most easily offended and the least tolerant: Liberals and progressives, because many of them don’t really want to hear anyone else’s opinion but their own.”
Whew! Tell us, Don, how good did it feel to get that off your chest? There must be others wrapped up in the news business that feel the same way. America is changing fast, and this up-and-coming generation seems to believe that they must be on constant vigilance against every possible offense.
They’ve learned all there is to know about “dog whistle racism,” “microaggressions,” “white privilege,” and all of these other academic rotten eggs that are currently stinking up the country. They are the first real incarnation of the PC Police, and they are making real conversations nearly impossible. What they may or may not realize is that political correctness is a means to an end.
They are pawns – whether willing or not – of a larger movement to change the way Americans think. To make it so whites, males, heterosexuals, and other “people of privilege” have no voice in the dialogue. If they want one, they must first submit to the lingo and then they must submit to the terms of the debate. And so it is that a liberal can merely cry, “Racist!” and win any argument by default. It doesn’t paint a pretty picture of the future, but maybe enough people are waking up to what’s happening that we can put a stop to it.
If Don Lemon is on our side, after all, anything is possible.
Perhaps next Don will crawl out of his filthy sodomite activities and will be a real man.
Young people were raised in ‘zero tolerance’ environments - that is public schools. It really should surprise no one that they have ‘zero tolerance’.
PC totalitarianism was created as a weapon against the bourgeois majority and conservative revanchists...liberals who target other liberals over their free expression must be re-educated.
Microagression cuts both ways. I’ve had black women tell me they didn’t think white women could cook. The assumption is that all white women had black maids or such in the past or even now.
One black woman told me she thought all Europeans and American whites were alike. She lumped Italians with Greeks and Germans. Considered Fins just like the Spanish.
Apparently, we all like lutefisk and drink ouzo for lunch, several land wars later.
Hair. Oh yes, hair. “Why is your hair so thin?” “You think you have curly hair? YOU don’t have curly hair.”
“White girls walk like they got a stick up they az.”
And so on.
So, the microagressions cut both ways. It’s called 1)ignorance and 2)curiosity.
So the black urban liberal faggie gets bitten by his own PC pit bull culture.
A Schadenfreude moment for us straight white crackas.
;^)
>>Hair. Oh yes, hair. “Why is your hair so thin?” “You think you have curly hair? YOU don’t have curly hair.”<<
If white chicks was born with curly hair and didn’t take advantage of EEO, they wasn’t paying attention. They missed the memo: there is no actual DEFINITION of black or indian. Just check the box and gummit bennies flow unto you!
Seems like this weapon has run amok and turned on its masters. Perhaps the pendulum is finally swinging back.
“Black America Web”
...never heard of it and I’ll never go on it. It appears they wouldn’t want me anyway. I feel so left out. ~sarc
PC only works when you give a damn what the other side thinks.
-— . “After almost 25 years in the news business, you know who is the most easily offended and the least tolerant: Liberals and progressives, because many of them don’t really want to hear anyone else’s opinion but their own.” -—
I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t “retire” or get reassigned to Syria soon.
“Lemon went on to advise that Americans “stop looking for reasons to be offended.””
I don’t have to look for reasons to be offended by the Obama administration and the lamestream media...They jump right out in front of me where I can see them clear as day!
-— They missed the memo: there is no actual DEFINITION of black or indian -—
Velly interesting.
“Lemon, whose status as both black and gay...”
The man is basically bulletproof in today’s world.
He only acknowledged the problem because he was the one who got hurt. Selfish, as always. Until we all stand together to defend free speech, we will all die - either separately or together.
Dey, Don! Bet it feels good to speak the truth for once, doesn't it?
Here's some more truth for ya: Being "black" is an accident of birth. It's not something you accomplished, and it doesn't make you special.
Here's yet another truth for ya: Being "gay" is just a fancy way of saying that you're a pervert with an inherently disordered approach to your sexuality.
Jus' sayin' ...
“I’ve had black women tell me they didn’t think white women could cook.”
That reminds me of when Oprah “taught” the whites in her audience about putting paprika on potato salad. She thought it was just a “black” thing.
“Oprah “taught” the whites in her audience about putting paprika on potato salad”
She got nuthin’ on Aunt Jemima!
It like years back, my best best friend an work, who is black, made a comment about white kinds copying black kids style
And mentioned shaved heads which was popular at the time....
I told him you gotta be kidding!
That’s shaved heads was a white kid thing long before black kids
And thought that I thought was actually odd for blacks adopted as...
As why did they call the racist white kids from a few years back “skin heads”
He thought for a second then started laughing and said I guess you were right.
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