“Never let a crisis go to waste” and certainly we are already seeing that coming out of the Baltimore riots (emphasis mine):
As noted here parenthetically, the president of the Baltimore City Council, Jack Young, apologized a day after calling the looters in his city “thugs,” suggesting that “misdirected youth” was a more appropriate label.
Yeah, once again we can’t call things the way they really are – the euphemism marketplace’s stock price has soared as the Political Correctness (aka, Cultural Marxism) industry has worked overtime to take words (and thus, the ideas and things they stand for) out of usage. Consider it the slow moving thought police. I don’t care what color you are, if you act like a thug, you’re a thug. If you act in ways counter to The Rule of Law, you’re a criminal and not “socially maladjusted”.
Sidenote: have you ever noticed that Political Correctness always seems to want to replace plain one or two syllable words with phrases with lots of syllables? It’s like they go out of their way to cover over and sugar coat bad behavior and decisions with a bucket of letters so as to obfuscate the actual thing.
Fortunately the author of the post is having none of it and shows a bit of reality – and pushback:
God knows you wouldn’t want to offend a teenager whose instinctive reaction to the death of a black man in police custody is to smash store windows and steal whatever merchandise he can carry off.
But it seems that the Left is gonna run with it:
A colleague of Young took the lunacy a step further. Appearing on CNN yesterday, Councilman Carl Stokes chastised host Erin Burnett for asking whether thug wasn’t in fact the right word, telling her that calling a young black man a thug is akin to calling him a n**ger. And, yes, Stokes “went there,” using the unvarnished racial slur on air.
Sigh…it’s always about control, even the language.
