I Couldn't Make This Stuff Up if I Tried.
What further proof do you need that the more multicultural we become the more the basic freedoms and values of Americans will become illegal. Yes the punishments for free expression are softer now, and still patchily enforced, but you only need look to our universities and how young people are being treated and 'reeducated' to realize where things are going. Just about everyone under 30 is used to speech codes and acceptance of stifling dissent and severe limits on free speech. On top of that they have probably heard George Washington's name used negatively far more than (if ever) positively. From the NY POST:
HOSTILE' GEORGE WASHINGTON
May 7, 2007 -- WALTER Kehowski, a math professor at Glendale Community College in Arizona's Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD), wishes he'd never e-mailed his fellow employees Thanksgiving greetings last November.
While reading a Web log, Kehowski found George Washington's "Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of 1789" and decided to send it along to the Maricopa community the day before Thanksgiving, 2006. Using an e-mail address commonly used to send out announcements, Kehowski e-mailed the text of the proclamation - and a link to the Web page on which he'd found it . . . on Pat Buchanan's site.
Within weeks, five employees filed harassment charges against Kehowski, claiming his message was "hostile" and "derogatory" because the link he'd included also led to Buchanan's comments about immigration.
A holiday greeting containing a link to a blog, which readers can either visit or simply ignore, doesn't fit any definition of harassment. Yet, instead of dismissing the bogus allegations, the MCCCD administration ruled that Kehowski had violated the district's Equal Employment Opportunity [some are more equal than others as we know by now]policy and technology policies that ban e-mails that are unsolicited or not work-related.
Yet in a single month (March 2007) individuals used the same listserv to send e-mails ads on how to purchase goats for Ugandan orphans and reminders on the health benefits of bananas - hardly work-related info. MCCCD Chancellor Rufus Glasper put Kehowski on paid administrative leave and asked the district's Governing Board that he be dismissed. Kehowski has since appealed the decision, with a hearing set for June 5.
Until then, a professor teeters on the edge of being fired, all because he sent out a Thanksgiving greeting written by the first U.S. president.
Authored by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (thefire.org).
What is really shocking is that the people who complained support the decision to fire Kehowski. They honestly believe that it is their 'right' not even have to hear something 'offensive' (yet these same people are often radically anti-Western and anti Christian). I have seen this pattern with increasing regularity. In fact I even see it among people who might even be sympathetic to some view, but are afraid to even look because they might be 'tainted' with the association.
So be it. I don't think people realize that when you are so easily offended you are a essentially a marionette who has handed someone else your strings. Imagine these super sensitive cuddled students in some 'real world' situation where they couldn't go running to an authority and actually had to defend their views or gulp, make the conscious decision to ignore the 'offending' email?
I remember a few years ago the army stopped using racial epitaphs during training. Now imagine a coddled recruit tho finds himself a POW and all the sudden is called naughty names....unless the red cross comes to save him he'll have no mental staminia or resolve to not let the offending name, well offend them. Because they have been trained to be hurt, and 'affected' by the name because in their PC world they are rewarded for being weak.
Oh btw, here it the 'offending' material:
Thanksgiving Day
Proclamation of 1789
by President George Washington
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor, and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me to "recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanks-giving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many single favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the Service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks, for His kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the single and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of His providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, of the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have to acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge and in general for all the great and various favors which He hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humble offering our prayers and supplications to the Great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to all people, by constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed, to protect and guide all Sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace and concord. To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us, and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone know to be best.
If someone is 'offended' by this, I suggest a. They pack their things and get back to where ever they came. b. shut the hell up. c. both. ..... and of course, the impossible: d. provide me with some logical explanation why and how this is 'offensive'.
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