Political Correctness will be one of the leading causes of the death of Western Liberal Philosophy and the civilization on which it is built. I read this and saw – for all of the West’s military might, a word might bring it down. Why?
It seems that anyone, at any time, can accuse of offense. Whether it makes sense or not, we seem to be devolving to where the decision of "offense" is no longer made by society but strictly by the minority – and in this case, a minority of one. The purpose of identity politics is not to ensure that the rights of a minority are protected. In effect, it is a tool with which to wage war by which the minority can hijack the rights of the majority.
From Powerline: It sounds like parody, but this story from Spain is evidently true:
The parents of a Muslim boy who attends a secondary school in La Línea, Cádiz province, have reported their son’s teacher for an incident in the boy’s geography class which the child said caused him offence as a Muslim.
The teacher, José Reyes Fernández, with more than 20 years in the profession, was explaining to the class how the cold climate in Trevélez, Granada province, aided in the curing of the village’s most famous local product, jamón serrano. The boy told his teacher that hearing the word ‘ham’ in class was offensive to him because of his religion and asked his geography teacher to stop referring to the product which caused him offence.
El Mundo newspaper reports that the boy’s parents then reported the teacher to both the National Police and to the courts. They placed a denuncia against the teacher for psychological ill-treatment in the context of xenophobia and racism.
One assumes that the boy and his parents had help from the Spanish equivalent of CAIR in pushing his "xenophobia" complaint. It is a great illustration of the effort to create a little bubble of walking sharia around each Muslim that we also see in the U.S.
On one level,…
…we see a KID hearing a common word, one that has much to do about the local commerce, basically holding an entire region hostage ("shhh, what can I say now?"); taken to its illogical movement, how long will that product be permitted to be even made and sold? After all, the Muslims used the force of law against what (from the story) seemingly was an otherwise upstanding person.
On a deeper level, the question must be asked: when does accommodation become capitulation? At what point does that capitulation become total surrender?
Is it time to just pack it in? Or is it time to defend our own civilization and be willing to scorn such actions? Or will we allow "lawfare" to continue its march across what used to be Classic Liberalism?
(H/T: Powerline)
