Cultural sensitivity a concern of officers

Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/06/2002 | Benjamin Y. Lowe

[He Rides A White Horse]

These people have an unparalleled ability to corrupt a word, and to turn it into a bad thing.

Diversity. Progress. Equal Rights

Look at any one of these words, and there is nothing wrong with any of them.

Listen to it come out of the mouth of a liberal, and watch how fast it becomes a sickening thing.

......and also consider that we are only talking about mere words here.

[Finny]

To tell the truth, the term "Arab American" disgusts me. My father is an American who immigrated from Britain at age three. Neither he nor I are British Americans, we're Americans. As for "Arab Americans," they're either Arab or they're American. That goes for any hyphalootin' hyphenated American!!

Muslims, on the other hand ... too many are American-born people who converted to Islam, as has become so hip in the black community. These are Muslim Americans; the rub is that whether these converts realize it or not (and from what I've read, they're often lied to, which isn't surprising since deceit is justified in spreading Islam; the Koran states that Mohammed was himself a master deceiver -- see faithdefenders.com) their very religion is anti-American in its Koran-stated intolerance of non-believers. Muslim American -- is it an oxymoron?

[He Rides A White Horse]

Muslim American -- is it an oxymoron?

I think any hyphenated identifier is an oxymoron..............you are either an American, or you aren't.

People have a natural tendency to identify themselves by their history. There's nothing wrong with that.

For example, I can identify myselves in terms of past immigration as being of Germanic descent. As well as Irish, Scottish, a smattering of others thrown in. It's not important though.

What is important is when I start using such descriptions as a platform to demand things.

I often wish that 'hyphenated' groups would realize what a disservice it is to themselves to subscribe to identity politics.

That hyphen is a self imposed qualifier that sets them apart from the rest........and those that insist on such a qualifier cannot legitimately insist on others seeing them as the same as long as they insist on seperating themselves, by their own choice.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Here's my hyphenated description:

Sick of hyphenated people-American.