PC Campus Culture Takes Out Alexandra Wallace
Just a few months ago, Alexandra Wallace was a UCLA student with her own YouTube channel. Thanks to political correctness — that evil, communicative virus that erodes our pride in Constitution and country — she’s now a college dropout who had to flee campus in the midst of death threats.
The United States in 2011 faces serious crises on several fronts. In terms of importance, the federal government’s monstrous, irresponsible debt is our most pressing concern. Debilitating annual deficits are a sword of Damocles threatening our sovereignty and national security. Documenting its peril and the ways we can avert calamity is an overwhelming imperative for conservatives. If we are to take our nation back we must ensure that something viable remains.
Political correctness is not quite as dangerous to the American endeavor as debt and money printing, but, as the Wallace case shows, it is every bit as antithetical. To the left, PC is an essential vehicle for silencing conservatives. It constantly evolves to squelch the expression of those arguments that statists are incapable of answering.
PC has many definitions but the one I will posit here is the deliberate attempt, via appeals to conformity and the creation of social mores, to realize a leftist political agenda. Two of the most ubiquitous words used to justify PC totalitarianism are “sensitivity” and “inclusivity.” One displays sensitivity when he or she allows leftists to talk without interruption while inclusivity is evidenced when third parties reflexively defer to whatever delusional policies the Democrats wish to implement.
More than anything else, political correctness demands that citizens shut their mouths and refrain from articulating common sense in the face of madness. This cultural Marxism is a rigged game and the preferred weapon of control freaks everywhere. Whether a proposition strikes you as crazy or not, its best practice to say nothing about it. Cultural Marxism is very much alive in the new millennium, so interwoven with our daily activities and conversation that some people are no longer capable of resistance.
Under its edicts, the drone who parrots PC is deemed intelligent, compassionate, learned, and evolved, whereas the individual who enunciates the truth is a Neanderthal, a bumpkin, and all too often…a Republican.
What is crucial is that citizens are purged of those unpredictable behaviors that make them human and capable of questioning utopian fantasies. PC is social control, and in no area has it triumphed more convincingly than in regards to race.
With race relations, a Belial rule is followed: Non-leftist whites are forbidden to say anything at all about race unless it’s to apologize for something. That plenty of minorities get caught in PC’s despotic web is ignored altogether.
This state of affairs is a result of Democrats continuing to see themselves — despite being the party of slavery and segregation — as the keepers of the demonic R. They hold that they and their purple hordes are the only mortals fit to decide what is racist and what is not.
They rewrite history and pretend their lust for social justice fueled the victories of the Civil Rights era. Of course, this is nothing but Abzug and bunkum. Twenty percent more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrats. Leftist talking heads though deny ever having heard of boll weevils and that the southern segregationists were as integral to the Democratic Party as Tammany Hall.
Racism, both as a concept and a pejorative, has been so frivolously applied and distorted over the last three decades that most accusations have little to do with discriminating against others on the basis of skin color.
Nowadays the insult most often defames a person that leftists simply don’t like. Disagreeing with a statist is all it takes to find oneself compared to infamous white supremacists.
The examples are infinite. Oppose public workers shaking down civic governments? It’s a civil rights issue and one linked to the legacy of Martin Luther King (seriously). The same thing is true if one questions the government’s degradation of health care.
Conservatives oppose ObamaCare for the soundest of reasons as everything the federocracy touches becomes inefficient and dysfunctional. Yet Democrats are immune to illumination. Last year one of their senators even equated those who oppose the health care power grab with deceased segregationists.
Most of us intuit that in order to be a country, borders must be defended. The Democratic Party knows better. Arresting aliens who illegally hop our fences is also a “racist” act in their eyes.
Enter Alexandra Wallace, the latest example of a twisted racist whom we all must despise.
That was a terrific article. You tell it like it is. The leftie agenda has degraded them to the point of actually taking the time to go to ‘war’ with a young flibbertigibbet. (love the word)
I agree that they have gone too far and I do welcome the day when they get a load of some of the commentators on this site. I do not think they will find it such easy prey.
The folks behind PC hate white people. Like all Leftists, you can count on their demands for behavioral reparations to be endless and escalating. The basic problem, which is becoming so obvious that even libertarians are seeing it, is that human societies are dominance matrices. One group will be on top, and everybody else has to survive as best they can. White people seem to have been deluded into thinking that they can simply sit out the culture wars. But, no. There are no ties in human societies — one group, no more; no less, will be dominant. Whites, having given up their historic dominant position, will just have to get used to seeing non-whites get preference in hiring/firing/promotion at work, and in freedom to speak, political races, education benefits, and every other good that society dispenses. Just today, we read about the m iltary’s new rule that gays can do whatever they want and normal uniformed personnel can either shut up, or leave the military. There are no ties in human society — either the normal people will set the rules or the gays will run things. Our military has a big advantage in technology, but I don’t see our new co-ed pansy forces defeating many all-male armies. Exit George Patton; enter Elton John.
I find it hard to believe that this bimbo even made it into UCLA. The universities need to weed out the dead wood anyway.
Yes. Starting with the professors.
Hey Mr. Torn, how much of that “dead wood” is non-white? Use the Modern Liberal PC definition of non-white, if you so wish.
After all, wishes are results, are they not? Check out Mr. President.
Better “bone up” on PC rap. Failure is not an option.
Don’t be shy now, Mr. Torn. You’ve got that secondary big mouth. How about some “You People” tunes?
Are you telling him to shut his racist PI mouth?
YOU are the problem and will henceforth be ignored!
The worse the political situation looks for leftypiggism,the shriller and nastier you leftypigs become. I take this as a sign that ACORN and the SEIU together won’t be able to get Barry Dunham more than 40% of the vote next year.
Why? You made it into the California university system — proof enough that clueless buffoons of all stripes can make into enormous college systems in this age of “universal” education.
I agree. For too the left has depended on the ‘turn the other cheek’ mentality of our Judeo Christian culture, while they have attempted to use intimidation for going on 50 years now. I’m not advocating any violence against them, as they clearly do us, but I’m done ignoring them as well. For a long time I held to the maxim that I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend your right to say it. No longer, I now fall back on an older maxim. The aggressor sets the rules of engagement. The left’s rules are to shout down and intimidate. Well, I will no longer be intimidated. Though to be fair if I was in Ms. Wallace shoes I would probably have to do the same thing. Threats to her person are real, as many conservatives on campus can attest. The leftist myrmidons depend on their mob mentality to get what they want; it’s a tenant of fascist ideology.
And yet the University of California, in many (most?) of its campuses, appears to allow, if not advocate, calls for the obliteration of the state of Israel and makes anti-semitism into a virtue from a vice. So politically correct is this institution that it denigrates itself into a massive arm of the leftwing Marxist mentality as opposed to true academic liberal thought. A pity!
Yes sir by golly. The University of California, in it’s desire to be PC, helped ruin South Africa by withdrawing it’s investments and now that
country is governed by a despotic group whose leader is a known rapist, among other things. The whites of South Africa sleep with a gun under their pillows and large dogs that bite. Intolerance is the child of the left and must be overcome.
Over all pretty good points, though it would seem your article was submitted before the counting error resulted in an uncontestable win for Prosser (see the next to the last paragraph).
All I can say is that it got everyone so riled up that it produced this (among other) responses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiEvmr3I-Ik&feature=related
BRAVO! I’ve felt like the proverbial voice crying in the wilderness, these past two years, waiting for others to notice the obvious and wondering why it should elude so many.
Time was, the core difference between the American Right and the American Left was our respective opinions about the best way to remedy certain widely agreed-on social ills. We assumed that those who differed with us about means nevertheless agreed on “what is good” – and that it wasn’t “to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.”
Not any more. Today, the Right is feverishly straining to save the country, while the Left is enthusiastically striving to destroy it. It could not be clearer. Yet to say so has been made into a social felony.
The path to this point hasn’t been particularly tortuous. Neither has it been without precedent. The partitioning of the American people into interest groups with subsidies, subventions, and legal privileges has rendered us all but incapable of seeing beyond our personal interests to the moral law that rears above us all. If we lack the ability to reverse course, it’s not for lack of the means; it’s the absence of an aggregated, principle-fueled will.
If evil should triumph, it will be because its masters have succeeded in dividing and tranquilizing us into doing nothing.
I’ve generally enjoyed your posts, but quoting Frank Yerby (and one of my favorites of his at that) gets you big extra points.
I am a conservative living in the Bronx. There aren’t many of us. In fact, I think it’s just me and another guy, and he’s really old. When I was younger, I met a Korean girl. We have a wonderful boy, now a man. Several years ago, in conversation with someone, I mentioned that I had an “Oriental” child. They took the time to explain to me why I was a racist. I had somehow missed the fact that the term “Oriental” had passed from accepted description into the lexicon of racism.
You see, in the world we have today, you can marry a Korean girl, father a half Korean child and still be considered racist towards Asians, should you use the incorrect terminology.
I grew up in Orient Heights (near Boston, Mass.) I supposed that makes me Asian now. Ha ha!
If I were you (and only YOU could have pulled this off) I would have laughed in the guys face and told him he was an ignorant sot!
The Democratic Party has been taken over by radicals who despise our country and wish to transfer America’s wealth to the third world.
Not quite. They want it for themselves. And any money remaining to transferred to the third world will be subject to their handling fees.
This is an excellent article and it raises without mentioning the reality that so long as mindless PC holds sway we can’t even defend ourselves against our sworn enemy because, in the “minds” of our politically correct overseers – people who choose to belong to an imperial, supremacist, totalitarian, intolerant political system whose core tenet is to spread its control throughout the world, by hard and soft jihad, aren’t people belonging to an imperial, supremacist, totalitarian, intolerant political system whose core tenet is to spread its control throughout the world – they are merely practicing “a religion”. And it is “racist” to say otherwise.
Many on the left can not tolerate anyone who challenges their world view. They are like spoiled children.
“Most” on the left can not tolerate anyone who challenges their world view. They are like spoiled children.
FTFY
I have called it the “War of the Insane Left”, but of course it is but one aspect of the present worldwide insanity, another aspect being the insanity of so-called “radical” Islam. Yet another aspect is the current crisis of incompetence in science, as typified by the “climate change” hysteria. The common psychological characteristic is absolute unwillingness to listen, much less take second place, to anyone outside of your religiously-held beliefs (“unbelievers”). The influence of what I call unforgiving Islam on angry African Americans (most famously starting with Cassius Clay, a.k.a. Muhammed Ali) should be studied and understood by everyone as basic information. The underlying belief is “an eye for an eye”: Once anyone has done wrong, they are cut off from respect and human sympathy, unless or until the “wronged” have exacted their full vengeance, according to their own judgment. (This is enshrined in modern scientific dogma as “survival of the fittest”, which people need to know is just as false as “an eye for an eye”. Who but the vengeance-minded judge what is “fittest”?) The forgiveness emphasized by Jesus, and followed by true Christians, is so far beyond such animal thinking that the unforgiving can never really take the high moral ground by any force, as they are driven to do (as Obama has been driven to do, notably), so they continually misjudge and disrespect others, and are now being driven to insane (yet completely vain) efforts to impose their will upon the “unbelievers”. This is precisely why independent thinkers will not be voting for Obama ever again. They want to see real character in their political leaders and in the public debates, not self-serving moral posturing.
Angry prose, well justified. We have every right to be angry.
Both Islamists and leftists demand that all others enlist or submit and become dhimmified. Natural allies.
Well done, Bernard, except the part about there still being time to save a great nation. Lack of opposition (as you point out) and treasonous teachers since the 60s have made it less than great long ago.
…four legged good, two legged bad.
Two legged brown, black, yellow, red good, two legged white bad.
Cue Nero playing the fiddle in the background.
These mentally ill people have had control for generations, of gov., of media, of academia. If they’re so frickin smart and know so much why oh why is the reality so much animosity, so much stagnation, so much decay??
If they say it’s the fault of the right, well my friends, they are not only mentally ill, racist, selfish, and petty…..they’re also totally incompetent. Thank you on the left for bringing us down to the lowest common denominator…
There are two Atlanta’s; there is South Atlanta, where one group of people live, and North Atlanta, where the other group lives. This division, of course, is not absolute, but it clearly exists.
North Atlanta (or, North Fulton County) has almost all of the new jobs, economic opportunity, good schools, low-crime, and the rest of the benefits of a well-run government and good citizens. I recently moved here and this is where I chose to live; it was a very easy decision.
South Atlanta, on the other hand, is a dump: crime and gang infested, violent, and unmanageable. No one would in their right mind would chose to live there unless you had to for some reason, and, even then, I would take the first bus out. And whole parts of the rest of Atlanta that could be OK are targets for South Atlanta’s mayhem.
Parts of Fulton County that make up North Atlanta are currently considering leaving Fulton County, and South Atlanta, for good, forming their own county. This will be a devastating blow to South Atlanta, but a huge benefit to all of us in North Atlanta who are paying the taxes for what we feel is the gross corruption and mismanagement of South Atlanta. But mostly, we feel that South Atlanta takes us for granted; we’re supposed to shut up and pay the bills. If they put an airport in North Atlanta, I’d have few reasons to drive south of the perimeter, aside from the occasional baseball game, and a trip down to hear a concert.
My point is that the solution here was not to get into a losing debate with people who are clearly not listening, who think that they can demand that I pay for their folly, but to vote with the wallet and the feet, and find a better place to set up shop–and stop paying for what clearly does not work. North Atlanta did just that over the past 20 years, and, I’m glad they did; Alpharetta is a very pleasant place to live.
Now, everyone up here in what will soon become, hopefully, Milton County, is very reluctant to talk in public, and habitually looks around them to see who might overhear (a pure product of PC authoritarianism) when they do, and they are very sensitive not to associate their pride in their local schools and cities with anything race-based (although the politicians and poo-bahs who run Atlanta have no trouble leveling that charge toward them at every opportunity), but I get the clear feeling that the PC terror has begun to lose it’s momentum, and people are increasingly willing to speak out–maybe not publicly yet, but they are saying in in their homes and bars.
PC can be stopped, but it begins with a solid lesson in who pays the bills in this country, and who is writing the checks. I lived in LA, and absolutely loathe the cultural fascism of UCLA; but I would never send my kids to a school I already know is one of the worst PC gulags in the country. Pepperdine, Claremont McKenna, Chapman, and possibly Loyola are not perfect, but are much better that UCLA as PC enforcement goes.
I agree with every word of Mr. Chapman, but I’m not having a public PC debate, I have a private one, from my private city-state in North Atlanta, where I refuse to pay for the left, and am doing all I can to de-fund the left at every level, and the PC universities are at the top of my list (and always have been). Conservatives should support schools that aspire to academic greatness without the PC culture attached; it is long past time that conservatives captured both public and private schools and put in their administrators and their professors and openly touted the school as the place to get a real education. And if you can’t capture them, start new ones; found a great traditional university that conservatives can be proud to send their kids to.
We need to become visionaries, and build what we need, and stop thinking places like ULCA will provide for us; they hate us, frankly, and just want us to shut up and pay the bill. The Tea Party is really about having the courage to say that I am no longer willing to pay the bill; the party on my hard work is over.
BTW, I would say that everyone under 50 spends way too much time aimlessly blabbering into their cell phones; it is a form of logorrhoea, and is a clear indication that the person cannot sit quietly for more than 15 seconds, and if you can’t sit quietly for 15 seconds, you probably can’t think clearly about anything either. So do Asian girls at UCLA blabber on their phones more frequently that other races or cultures? I don’t know if that is an interesting question, but if it is true, that would explain their abysmal driving patterns.
This is an interesting comment. We had the same argument here in LA about secession, sans the racial element, in that the San Fernando Valley tried to secede a few years ago. The measure had to pass in *all* the city, however, and the regions that benefit from the extra tax dollars (the “West Side” and “South LA” or “Watts”) didn’t want to have to pay their own freight, so they voted to keep Valley voters in their city. At one point, it was reported that for the valley (1.3 million residents at the time, according to Wikipedia) there were, on some weeknights, two patrol cars with two cops each…for the whole area. Venice, the West Side, and South Central get much more attention, the first two because lots of wealthy people live there, the last because there’s a lot of gang activity.
As to whether Asian students use their cell phones more than most: I would guess that Asian-American students don’t. Asian-Asians, however, are notoriously enamored of their electronic devices. It’s often widely reported that cell phone technology is tested in Japan first, because it’s so widely popular there. And yes, we do get a lot of Japanese students here in Southern California…not Japanese-American ones, but Japanese students who are going to take their degrees back to Japan, or live here but remain citizens of the old country. I would expect it was these people the young bimbo was referring to (Asian-Americans don’t usually have much of an accent) when she ranted the way she did. And more than a few people have complained about the rudeness of people answering cell phones in inopportune places; she wouldn’t be the first.
UCLA is famously PC (as are most other educational institutions, especially here in California) and can be pretty annoying about it. Hopefully this young woman will get an education somewhere else, and learn some manners…regardless of whether she had the right to say this, or was properly treated once she did, the whole thing was in what an Englishman would call “apalling bad taste”.
wow ..Bernard that is the best description of PC I have ever seen..
the power of peer pressure is immense and wielded as a club by the leftists/progressives/marxists.
regards
It used to be the religious rights main weapon of choice to control civil behavior and was called “shunning.”
Somewhere along the line liberals decided they weren’t going to be shamed anymore and the rest is history.
I’m sorry . . . “religious right?” You’re defining the practice of shunning started centuries ago by some religious sects as a “right-wing” thing? Talk about a stretch.
Learn some history and culture before making silly sweeping statements like that.
Oh wait, lolly. Did I just jump to an erroneous conclusion by missing the subtlety in your remark and make a fool of myself? I believe I did.
Never mind
–Emily Latella
One more note to get the PC censors riled up: hip-hop culture is poison, pure self-destructive lunacy that is guaranteed to destroy any remnant of civilized behavior it encounters. When you see traces of hip-hop culture in your own family and children, explain to them what it really is: a cultural catastrophe based on self-loathing and character defects; a catastrophe that has been elevated into a cultural institution by people with no taste or discernment, moral and intellectual cowards, whose worst fear is to offend the PC racial censors and, as a result, have a charge of racism leveled at them in the public eye (they all just witnessed what happened to that silly girl in the story above).
What hip-hop culture is really selling is militant illiteracy, violence, paranoia, drugs, drug-dealing, drug use and subsequent addiction, baby-mommas, dependency and welfare fraud, thug-life, assault, and, above all, intimidation in every facet. It leads to prison, an early death, and/or a series of unfulfilling, low-wage jobs alongside other hip-hop morons. But it’s fun to intimidate other people and have them be afraid of you. Hell would be stuck in a club full of hip-hop morons for eternity.
And hip-hop culture is being sold world-wide as a major US cultural export; we are actively poisoning other cultures with the dumbest thing to ever come out of the United States. But the arrogant elite in France and Belgium love hip-hop because it is so transgressive; little do they know that the damage that McDonald’s causes to both cuisine and arteries is nothing when compared to a steady diet of dirty nursery rhymes (thanks to T. Wolfe) muttered by hip-hop losers.
UCLA is where otherwise bright people write graduate papers on the cultural significance of hip-hop culture; elevating the subliterate boasting or a narcissistic thug into the equivalent of Yeats and Auden. UCLA is where we are supposed to commiserate with this dead-end idiocy and come to a greater understanding of what can really be taken at face-value for what it calls itself: thug-life. Now, can we all have a moment of silence for Biggie?
Had this very discussion with my kids on the way to school while listening to the latest ghetto- porn- rap- ditty that included the phrase licky licky!. I called the rap artist a depraved thug with the intellect of a insect. The devil knows what sells… licky lick.
They called me a racist & insisted he was probably just trying to make money to support his poor ol mama. (this is from white kids attending a private christian school) I fought the culture and the culture won.
While I agree that political correctness on campus (and everywhere else) amounts to little more than an effor to shut people up who express ideas contrary to the leftist viewpoint, using Alexandra Wallace as a posterchild isn’t the best choice. The campus PC police certainly overreacted, but she IS a bigot – so much so that she displays all the attributes common to bigots everywhere: stupidity, ignorance, intolerance, etc.
Did she deserve to be driven off campus? Probably not. Did she deserve death threats? No…and the people who made them should be found and prosecuted. But in no way does that change the fact that Ms. Wallace is a stupid, spoiled-rotten, petty little idiot.
Better examples might be conservative speakers who are shouted down by students, newspapers with conservative columns that are regularly bundled up and thrown away by “enlightened” liberal students, and many more. The examples are endless. The best reaction to Ms. Wallace, however, is to ignore her.
I keep encountering this word, “bigot”. It seems to be a way to attack someone for possessing an opinion. Usually, an opinion based upon a substantial body of evidence. Would you like to explain what you think a “bigot” is? I am fairly sure I am one, but it would be nice to have a definition to work with.
well said.
I saw her video, and, I felt sympathy toward her situation. There are two mistakes she made, to appeal effectively to rectify the problem. (1) she should have reported/complained to the library, or the school officials, to let them warn the noisy parties to learn the proper behavior (2) Should not call the noisy parties just “ASIANS”. There are Asians and there are Asians!….. she generalized whole Asians a bad group……That’s against PC itself, right?
I see the similar scene in our local library with the same group of people as she referred, but, it’s not often, and other people say “hush” or the the library staff to tell them to be quiet, sometimes repeatedly, then it works.
Now, she learned the lesson and I hope she goes to more quiet and orderly school and succeed in her study.
Well written and to-the-point. I especially enjoyed the reading the link to cultural Marxism. Did you notice the comments posted at the YouTube site, where someone mirrored Wallace’s video? They were worse than what Wallace said, by far.
Yep, pc runs amok. I’m sick to death of it & it truly us used to beat any conservative down.
Most of what you maintain about loudmouth leftist bullying tactics is true. They are loud-mouthed and bullying because for them to engage in a reasonable discussion on any contentious topic puts them in a position where they will lose and they know it. We are all familiar with the type that cannot stand to be criticized and cannot, even if their life depends on it, criticize themselves. This is what the average leftist has become.
The more rational leftists now recognize how badly their interrupt-and-monopolize-the-conversation tactics have backfired on them. They understand that leftism itself is under serious attack because of these tactics and also because Obamism has busted their brand. Most importantly, though, they understand that they have nothing to lose at this point in revving their conversational fascism all the way up.
Leftists will lose very badly next year. And after they lose our task will be to limit their access to the national conversation. Banning them completely is unrealistic; like household pests they will always find a way in.
….what Wallace said should not have reached any level of outcry.. a non-event.
not the smartest commentary but it is her take on things. you would have to be a bit racist to make it a racist issue.
I have read the article and all of the comments. I agree only with comments 19 and 20. I do think that Mr. Chapin’s initial description of Alexandra W. is amusingly sexist (“full-bodied”?). Is he defending her honor because she is well endowed? Note that she was not thrown out of UCLA, but left on her own accord.
To the other commentators: it was a white liberal elite that invented speech codes, not the cultural Marxists. I invite readers to my website where I write about such matters almost every day, without hysteria. For one example, see http://clarespark.com/2011/03/26/race-class-and-gender/. Or see http://clarespark.com/2011/03/28/index-to-multiculturalism-blogs/.
Ms. Spark,
To differentiate between white, liberal elites and cultural marxists for the sake of argument is truly splitting hairs that are already suffering from split ends. The practical difference between the two when social mores like PC are concerned are less than negligible.
In addition, to suggest that your blog comments on issues “..without hysteria..” without even attempting to prove the article upon which you are commenting has somehow engaged in hysteria is intellectually lazy at best.
Finally, including “full-bodied” in the description of Ms. Wallace is not sexist in any way, shape, or form. It is accurate and is an interesting juxtaposition to the general physical features of those she was criticizing. One thing that always tires men of cultural feminists like yourself is how quickly they assert sexism anytime a male refers to the physical features of females. I submit it is you, Ms. Spark, who has quite ironically engaged in hysteria, not the author.
left of her own accord.
yes …I am sure the death threats didn’t have anything to do with it.
Truly! The left’s “newspeak” in action! Had the young lady been killed the liberals would have characterized the act as a “shameful overreaction.”
a)Seriously, Ms. Clare, have you read any of Chapin’s books? “Women: Theory and Practice” should be an eye-opener for you.
b)She is “full-bodied.” Yay! If that’s sexist, I’m in.
c)What is a supposed idiot – other than useful(hah!) – doing in UCLA to begin with? Shouldn’t she be in a community college somewhere?
What this proves is that the leftist liberals are neither. A true liberal would leave this woman’s statements alone and counter it or discuss it in context of their own world view. A leftist would point out whatever racist evils are there. Neither would threaten, bully, or dispense personal hatred against this woman.
Our political discourse has descended in to personal attacks. This woman’s views may have been ignorant, foolish, observant, or accurate –it doesn’t matter. The level of hatred against this woman is unprecedented. Meanwhile, other “disadvantaged” groups are routinely espousing hatred, racism, sexism, and downright evil on a scale that is unknown to most Americans. They are in turn celebrated on campus.
This is the result of over-corrective politics. We are no longer living in the 1960s and 1970s. But if you’re from the left, why, nothing has changed.
When the leftist old guard retire from politics, people will look back and see a bunch of self deluded idiots. I hope we survive their hate…
Excellent article. Exposing to the light the untruth, manipulation and Orwellian fraud of the tyrants on the left is the best disinfectant.
Progressives and Leftists like to proclaim Conservatives and Tea Party members “Fascist”. I submit that they in fact have their own peculiar kind of Fascism which is illustrated perfectly by this article.
From Wikipedia:
Fascism ( /ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a radical, authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2] Fascists advocate the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation and the creation of an ideal “new man” to form a governing elite through indoctrination, physical education, and family policy including eugenics.[3] Fascists believe that a nation requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.[4] Fascist governments forbid and suppress opposition to the state.[5]
Nothing peculiar about Democrat fascism. Its real and quite malignant.
“Her offending video criticized those Asians who she finds tiresome on the Westwood campus. For a little less than three minutes she shallowed forth about how Asians have quirky and annoying habits.”
So?
I can think of all kinds of things Asians have done that I find to be quirky and annoying.
For example, I find it quirky and the annoying that the Asian Japanese saw fit to attack us in 1941, killing thousands of Americans in the process.
I find the mass slaughter carried out by Asians in the KMT, the Imperial Japanese Army, and various Asian communist organizations to be quirky and annoying.
I find the business practices of the Asians of the PRC to be quirky and annoying, especially since the United States is now being flooded with cheap Chinese manufactures that are some of the shoddiest junk I’ve ever seen in my life.
I find that East Asian music sounds like someone torturing a cat, and tonal languages (like the Chinese group of languages) sound like someone dragging their fingernails across a blackboard. It’s not nearly as irritating as the Japanese Army butchering a million or so Filipinos, who were under American protection, during WWII, but it’s mildly irritating to listen to. Of course, the Chinese are under no obligation to change their language to suit my tastes, but I’m also under no obligation to like the sound of their languages (or music).
I have news for folks, just because groups of Asians do things in a certain way, that doesn’t mean I have to like what they do or the way they do it.
I’ll like and dislike what I please, and if I feel like expessing my opinion, then I’ll do so. And, if you don’t like my opinion…too bad for you.
I’m white, I am married to a mexican, and we have 4 kids. Yes when I say I don’t like illegals coming uncontested into our country and turning lower income neighborhoods into little mexicos (a sentiment my husband shares) I am racist. Apparently I missed the memo the left sent out making mexican a race.
I am myself married to a latina who is deadset against illegal immigration and isn’t shy about taking to the message boards to comment. You should see the PC crowd tying themselves into knots trying to denigrate her without leaving themselves open to a charge of racism. Hilarious.
I do not think she should have be rail-roaded out of the university. That is way over the top in reaction.
What is has pointed out is the extremely low standards of academics who are unable to produce little more than a feral population. Their incompetance is mind boggling. There should be an inquiry into their ability to be professors/academics. Do they or did they actually earn a degree? What makes them qualified for their post? Certainly not results.
Considering that outrages tossed with ease on the Christian community, her little burst was quite tame and there were no cheers?
Check out the video of Ann Barnhardt. She is all about free speech and makes no bones about it. No one is going to run her out of any school.
She fully understands that she have been robbed and calls a thief a thief.
Recalling a quote I saved from something I read several years ago; although I neglected to save the attributable author. Presumably, the Tea Party movement will return us to some form of sanity.
“Fact based speech…as it had been known in those days before the age of carefully gentle euphemisms had been created to shield the public as much as possible from all contact with reality: ie. Politically correct.”
The spectacle of professors and administrators descending on this young woman is horrifying. Yes, what she said was silly and rude. But when I hear a young person say things like this, I can’t help but think such sentiments arise directly from the relentlessly saturating, bias-enforcing, racial pseudo-engagement we’re imposing on these kids.
And when I think back on some of the truly sick and vicious things I heard in graduate classes — sexual and racial slurs hammered down as sensitivity and diversity — coming FROM faculty and grad students — I shudder to think of how much worse this will all become as students are indoctrinated at younger and younger ages.
I was training to be a teacher before this sort of militant mind-policing had penetrated the K – 12 grades. So some of my students were being exposed to it for the first time, and I watched freshman literally shut down emotionally in the face of it. By the time they got through orientation, I think they realized that the slightest objection to certain messages would severely damage their ability to advance through their college years and get jobs in the professions.
And so nobody spoke up — at least not in public, though many people were privately appalled. This is dangerous stuff, and the degree to which it is being enforced throughout all educational institutions feels to me like a war that has already been lost.
(1)As #25 points out, it was mainly upper middle class educated whites that have allowed this multiculturalism, political correctness, ethnic and religious mix by (legal and illegal) migration to evolve into this current conundrum in the US (and Europe) through a plethora of social policies over the past century.
Liberalism, progressivism, socialism, communism and marxism are all ‘isms’ largely advanced by upper middle class educated whites who took aim at destroying the overwhelimingly white Western Civilization.
Long term global demographic and economic forces (including free flow of people, capital, resources and output in and out of borderless countries) are driving this corner of the World, what used to be called the ‘West’ to extinction. A broad equalization process is underway, whereby the former West will be populated by an amorphus mixture of ethicities settling at an average income level equal to that of an average human on this Earth (it’s called the Alonso, Henderson, Dendrinos model of economic geography).
Please, disregard this post; the full/correct one is listed under # 38.
There are some good responses here, but otherwise this is the sort of angry, unthinking rant that makes the loudmouth, Sarah Palin loving conservatives look like fools.
Where the author shows himself to be more full of fear and anger than common sense is when he rants about how more Republicans than Democrats supported the civil rights legislation of 1964.
You’d have to be very obtuse to pretend that that very legislation wasn’t the primary motivating factor that converted most Southern Democrats into Republicans and reshuffled the basic makeups of the parties into the alignment we see now, where white Southerners have become Republicans and East Coasters are now largely Democrats.
The conservative movement does itself a disservice with these sorts of unthinking rants.
“but otherwise this is the sort of angry, unthinking rant that makes the loudmouth, Sarah Palin loving conservatives look like fools”
Example of angry rant please? (I won’t hold my breath…)
Plus, it’s more than a bit comical that while decry supposed angry, unthinking, ranting loudmouths, that you make yourself out to be one so well.
Irony: better displayed than described.
“You’d have to be very obtuse to pretend that that very legislation wasn’t the primary motivating factor that converted most Southern Democrats into Republicans and reshuffled the basic makeups of the parties into the alignment we see now, where white Southerners have become Republicans and East Coasters are now largely Democrats.”
This is the new liberal lie that all republicans that were involved in the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement were all democrats who magically turned into republicans (or vice versa depending on the argument).
Point is, they are rewriting history AGAIN so they can claim credit for what republicans did regarding race and civil rights and how it was democrats who tried to block it. Al Gore’s dad and Robert KKK Bird didn’t change party’s folks!
The truth is, that old racist democrats simply died out and their children “saw the light” and vote republican – they are still registered democrats (which is weird) but they vote republican.
No one in America, neither Democrats or Republicans, have noticed that political correctness is quite unnecessary for people who are intelligent enough to defend themselves. There is a young Chinese man who demonstrates clearly that he needs no liberals to defend him; he defends himself beautifully. Just look at and listen to his song, “Ching Chong! Asians in the Library Song (Response to UCLA’s Alexandra Wallace)” on YouTube at:
Please notice that his defense is pleasing to listen to and embodies love, rather than hate or vindictiveness. When you finish listening to him, you will understand why Chinese civilization has lasted over 3,000 years while other civilizations have disappeared.
#36–I don’t know why the URL to the YouTube video didn’t appear in my comment. Here it is again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zulEMWj3sVA&feature=related
I also experienced a problem with my posting; the web bug strikes again.
I think she is hot, and with a little bit of coaching, could develop her video into a standup comedy routine.
Randy I think you are just the person for that job.
(1) As #25 points out, it was mainly upper middle class educated whites that have allowed this multiculturalism, political correctness, ethnic and religious mix by (legal and illegal) migration to evolve into this current conundrum in the US (and Europe) through a plethora of social policies over the past century.
(2) Liberalism, progressivism, socialism, communism and marxism are all ‘isms’ largely advanced by upper middle class educated whites who took aim at destroying the overwhelmingly white Western Civilization.
(3) Long term global demographic and economic forces (including free flow of people, capital, resources and output in and out of more or less borderless countries, the so-called ‘New World Order’ of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Group) are driving this corner of the World, what used to be called the ‘West,’ to extinction. A broad equalization process is underway, whereby the former West will be populated by an amorphous mixture of ethnicities settling at an average income level equal to that of an average human on this Earth (it’s called the descriptive Alonso, Henderson, Dendrinos model of economic geography). The mere economic component of this model is the so-called ‘redistibution of income’ effect, which has both descriptive and policy elements in it.
(4) America, i.e., the notion of America that the Founding Fathers had, no longer exists. Instead, this amorphous mass producing law cited in (3) is well on its way to totally and ‘fundamentally transform’ this nation. The proof of that is looking at you from the Oval Office right now: the fuzzy Kenyan/Indonesian/Hawaiian muslim/atheist/Christian black/arab/white (I bet, he doesn’t even know for sure himself what he really is) person set up there to play President for his handlers, is just a bright telling example of that amorphous mix concept.
(5) Can anything be done about it? Or, as the expression goes ‘can we take our country back’? The jury is still out on this one, but if anything can be done about it, it will be very, very, very painful. Regretfully, very few realize this, and even fewer are willing to pay the cost to do so. Apathy, along with a host of other factors, has already settled in and the inevitable ‘transformation’ has now largely been accepted even by those who in principle object to it. Take a look at the current, supposedly conservative, GOP contenders for the nomination: not a single one among them is discussing these subjects, no one.
The campus PC police certainly overreacted, but she IS a bigot – so much so that she displays all the attributes common to bigots everywhere: stupidity, ignorance, intolerance, etc.
She has made no proposals for murder, mayhem, banishment or enslavement of those she complains against.
She is only as much bigot as those who spout the party line against the viewers of Fox News. The spouters enjoy and flaunt their stupidity, ignorance, intolerance, etc, simultaneously bathing in the plaudits of their fellow spouters, and hoping to drive those viewers (and the purveyors!) from the public discussion. See Fairness Doctrine, restoration of.
If leftists can draw and publish derogatory cartoons of their imagined opponents, and then BELIEVE those cartoons, who are they to deny equal rights to buffoons of other political persuasions?
When I’m in a library or any other institution, school, restaurant, whatever and surrounded by noisy, chattering cell phone addicts I reach into my backpack and turn on my hi-power cell phone jammer. (Yes they are available, you just have to know where to look to buy them) The result is Instant silence and total puzzlement while they stare at their phones wondering why the signal dropped off. I use it on the bus, in the subway, anywhere I can. There’s no cell phone texting-cheating done in any classes I attend that’s for sure. I block them all. It’s all I can do to keep a straight face and not choke on my own laughter. And if one is cool and circumspect while engaging in this little bit of guerrilla warefare, nobody will know and chances of getting caught are slim to none.
The hilarious thing is that she probably voted for Obama. I mean, when this was all over Facebook the other week, most people whose comments I read were assuming that she was a conservative (OH HEY LOOK AT THE RACIST CONSERVATIVES and all that); I have trouble imagining this to be the case. (Especially since she’s studying _political science_ at _UCLA_!)
It simply isn’t true that the Political Science Department at UCLA (or anywhere for that matter) is exclusively populated by liberal faculty/students.
She rants against Asians.
This is racist.
This doesn’t mean Democrats are great Americans or the Left is right to be Anti-American.
It trivializes good positions on important issues to come to the defense of anyone dim enough to do this.
She could have said Rude Asses and never identified any ethnicity.
No, she is not the KKK, but her argument is Racist and shows a paucity of presidential material.
Let’s nominate her for President to make a point, shall we?
It must have been a slow news-week, eh?
She rants against Asians.
This is racist.
No, this is not racist. A racist is someone who believes their particular race is superior to others. Hurry, get that PC hook out of your face before you get dragged into the boat and clubbed into submission. A bigot is someone who is partial to their own race, religion, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ. Ms. Wallace demonstrated neither racism, nor bigotry. She simply used a rhetorical delineator to paint a picture of the offending party, in this case, their race. This is why political correctness is so vile. It adulterates the meaning of words in order to use them as a truncheon.
There are too many Claires on this blog…..
what makes you say that?
“She rants against Asians. This is racist.”
No, it isn’t. She didn’t say anything that was the least bit racist.
Now, you see Dave, I totally agree with you on this.
A-phucking men!
What laziness from Chapin. It’s all PC is ruining everything and silencing our voices. Really? Lets take a look at what the Nation actually said.
“Every time a new example of incendiary, bigoted campus speech hits the news, the FIRE folks rise up to defend the speaker’s right to express his or her views — as, in my opinion, they should. Like them, I’m generally opposed to campus speech codes and in favor of the principle that more speech is the best remedy for bad speech.”
So, a writer from the Nation, leftist of lefties acknowledges that groups should defend Wallace’s right to free speech and in general is opposed to campus speech codes.
What about the New York Times:
“Ms. Wallace is rightly being criticized by officials, fellow students and many others for her clearly racist words. Still, the university would do a great disservice to itself and the First Amendment if it goes ahead and disciplines her for the content of her words.”
The whole Times editorial is basically saying that Wallace SHOULDN’T be punished for the video because, “That would be a far greater threat to education and to a strong democracy.”
Of course it’s appalling to see this woman receive death threats, but the “ching chong ting tong” bit and being completely oblivious to the pain and suffering of Japanese earthquake victims and their families. It should be equally clear as to why people have a problem with what this woman said.
On the other hand Don Rickles could have made it work.
Thank you all for reading this article. Let me illustrate though with comment 46 the nature of the leftist. Here, as a means to erect a strawman argument, the leftist mischaracterizes my position and insinuates that i misrepresent the NYT and the Nation. I did not. Leftists are dishonest and weak. They are slaves to their emotions and accept PC in dronelike fashion as does this commenter. Again, we must verbally fight them wherever we find them.
Here’s what I said: “Wallace’s moronities enflamed the leftist media. A writer at The Nation dubbed her another “example of incendiary, bigoted campus speech.” The Huffington Post decried it as a “racist rant.” The statist feminists of Jezebel followed suit with brilliant creativity, labeling her a “racist ranter.” Most astoundingly, the New York Lies Times devoted an editorial to Wallace’s “clearly racist words.”
I did not imply they wanted her thrown out of school or that her 1st Amendment rights should be discarded, but the leftist must mischaracterize and pretend i did or he will have nothing to say. My point there is that leftists universally accept PC as a framework for framing human interactions. We do not. I do not think Wallace provided incendiary, biogoted speech or that her words were clearly racist. Let’s roll PC back and say what we please. Give the left nothing and acknowledge that their demands, pseudo-arguments and hyper-emotive BS are nothing more than a form of political war. Fight them!
Okay, who are these “facist hanging judges” and what are they judging? What of your claim that:
“What would be dismissed as mundane valley girl gibberish in 1981 now amounts to a hate crime thirty years later.”
If you read the Nation or the New York Times, I don’t see where you could equate their treatment of her as anywhere near a hate crime. You still go on about the Times editorial and completely miss the point of the piece which clearly states that her right to free speech as obnoxious as it may be is protected.
Yet somehow you’re surprised that the administration treated her fairly? How can it defy your expectations when you just quoted two major leftist articles that quite clearly tell the administration they don’t think she should be punished?
Did you just not read the articles you linked to?
Lefty: So you think it’s appropriate for college officials to publicly criticize a student for posting a crude You-Tube rant? Perhaps it might be if such standards were ethics, instead of politics, if they were applied with an even hand, rather than allocated in what Kevin Myers calls the “power-pyramid of political correctness,” which “authorises certain people — typically, blacks, homosexuals, women — to say almost anything in public. Others — white, heterosexual, middle-aged males — cannot say far milder things even in private, without an outcry.”
Double-standards are cynical and feed contempt.
That’s the point. That, and the absurdity of an all-powerful school administration, and the national “newspaper of record,” feeling the need to grandstand over a young woman’s foolish video, which hardly rises to the level of cultural stereotype blazing in every corner of UCLA’s official online presence. Here’s just one quick example — the official student course blog for Critical Race Studies, which includes one of Ms. Wallace’s peers musing that Lehman Brothers behaved unethically because they are white men, whereas “diverse” people in the same position would have behaved ethically.
This is what they teach in classrooms in UCLA. No wonder Ms. Wallace feels entitled to judge people based on identity.
Here’s the link to Myers’ editorial: http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/kevin-myers-pc-rules-have-made-life-worse-for-those-theyre-meant-to-protect-2612508.html
Here’s the Critical Race Blog, really tragic stuff: http://spacrs.wordpress.com/spring-2010-course-blog/
Leftist, this is why PC is so evil. PC means that you get to tell the other person what he means. Someone says Maccaca and that means “…” according to you. No, ask George Allen what he meant.
With my article you pretend you know the point I was making. You do not. Didn’t you read this article? Of course not, you’re just another emotionac who has an emotional response before he thinks.
My point is that leftists like you are drones and accept PC automatically when it is but utter nonsense:
“example of incendiary, bigoted campus speech.”
“racist rant.”
“racist ranter.”
“clearly racist words.”
Nope, dense stuff from her but no racism at all. The NYT et al has to pretend it is because they’re leftists who are enthrall to PC.
“who are these “facist hanging judges?” The ones who threatened to kill her. Didn’t you read the article genius?
Also, I didn’t hear your position? From what you’re saying you must agree with me concerning the banal nature of her speech right?
No, on all counts. What she said was rude but it wasn’t racist. It’s fine. It’s okay to criticize Asians just as it should be to criticize everyone else. Let’s all criticize each other freely and fight PC and make sure leftist liars are voted out of office.
No mention of your total mischaracterization of the 1964 Democratic/Republican voting pattern and how the very civil rights legislation you discuss in fact changed the voting patterns forever after?
Shame.
“Newspeak” lie.
You will not get away with rewritting history!
Nope, I described them accurately. The Democratic Party is the party of segregation and slavery and racist to the core. Still is. Shame!
Hey, given your neurotic guilt ridden hateful personalities have you ever thought of changing the name of the Democratic Party to “Shame, Shame, Shame?” Consider it.
They can’t. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from democrats is that they have NO shame!
Racism, in the sense that we’re talking about, means that you believe human beings can be organized into groups (races) and that members of the group have inherent attributes.
If I say a bunch of Asians are making noise in the library, that isn’t racist.
If I say a bunch of Asians are making noise in the library because Asians are just naturally rude, noisy folks. That is racist.
If I say black people constitute 10% of the population of America, but commit 50% of the murders, that isn’t racist.
If I say black people constitute 10% of the population of America, but commit 50% of the murders, because the urge to murder is a genetic feature of the black race…that is racist.
Understand?
You ought to…it ain’t all that complicated.
As I indicated earlier (under #44) I agree with you, except when you said: “If I say a bunch of Asians are making noise in the library because Asians are just naturally rude, noisy folks. That is racist.”
Since I don’t consider being rude or noisy particularly offensive, I would rephrase it and say: “…because Asians are just superior and feel they can do and say anything they please unchecked. Now, that’s racist.”
Don’t you agree?
“HORDES of asian people that UCLA accepts every year…”
“Ching Chong Ling Long…”
Sorry. This woman is racist to the core, as is her rant. It isn’t a matter of “political correctness”. She is just racist. It permeates her entire video.
If she had problems with people using cell phones in the library, she should have just focused on that. But she talks about “american manners.” Unfortunately, in todays world “american manners” (or “ill-manners” if you will), especially as demonstrated by arrogant brain-dead children such as her, includes using cell phones EVERYWHERE. Including the library.
People in general, and YOUNG PEOPLE/STUDENTS in particular, use cell phones in stores, in businesses, in the cubicle next to you, and yes, IN THE FREAKING LIBRARY.
The problem isn’t asians… it is simply rude behavior that is common in our society. I suspect this B#$@ and her friends are just as guilty of this as those “horde of asians”. The only difference is that they happened to be doing it on one of the few times she was actually studying and not making idiot racist videos.
What happened, did you suddenly realize you hadn’t picked up a book all semester and you had finals the next day???
I am actually a conservative and despise true PC-ism. But this valley girl is truly a racist and there is nothing redeemable in this video.
OK, she’s racist, and an idiot to boot. You kind of missed the point of the article, as, to be fair, have any here who may be defending her.
The question is, what would you do about it? Do you think UCLA handled this correctly?
“HORDES of asian people that UCLA accepts every year…”
Sigh.
But, they DO accept hordes of Asians. There’s nothing racist about observing that.
“The video sparked an immediate reaction at UCLA, where 37 percent of the school’s 26,000 undergraduates are Asian, 32 percent are white, 16 percent Hispanic and 4 percent black.”–AP
Now, if she had said that UCLA admits hordes of Asians because Asians are inherently smarter than people from other races…that would be racist.
“This woman is racist to the core…”
Could be…but, what she said is not racist.
The fact that you refer to “HORDES” in your reply says a lot about YOU.
And with regard to your reply to “PiowP”, you make it really obvious that you are racist against Asians:
“You sound like an American to me.”
What do you expect Asians to sound like ??? CHING CHONG LING LONG?
You are an idiot as well as a racist!
As far as this valley-girl is concerned, I certainly don’t wish anything bad on her. But has she produced any evidence whatsoever regarding supposed “death threats?”
My guess is that she had to drop out because she failed her finals due to partying all semester. Now she wants to blame some ethnic group for her own lack of academic qualifications.
Yeah, I do think she is racist and her rant has brought out the racism in the pseudo-conservative comments.
‘The fact that you refer to “HORDES” in your reply says a lot about YOU.’
Yeah, it shows I know what the word horde means: a teeming crowd or throng. Thousands of Asian or white students sounds like a crowd to me.
“What do you expect Asians to sound like ???”
Depends on what part of Asia they’re from. If you’re from China, I expect you to sound Chinese, if you’re from Japan, I expect you to sound Japanese.
However, if you’re an American from America, then I expect you to sound like an American.
That’s usually how it works.
And, PiowP doesn’t like an Asian from Asia to me. He sounds like an American from America. Something wrong with that?
“And with regard to your reply to “PiowP”, you make it really obvious that you are racist against Asians:”
No, actually your remark just shows what a mindless buffoon you are. Even though you’ve been given the correct definition of racism…you’re still too stupid to understand what the word means.
And, if I was racist against Asians, I wouldn’t likely be telling a guy or gal who self-identifies as Asian that they sound exactly like me, you pathetic moron.
You think white racists like Lester Maddox went around telling black people, that they weren’t really African, but they were really Americans just like Lester Maddox? It doesn’t work that way, sweetheart.
You wouldn’t know what racism was if it jumped up and bit you on your dumb ass.
I don’t think she’s a racist. BUT let’s say she is for arguments sake – SO WHAT???
Being a racist isn’t against the law. Neither is being any kind of jerk.
Discrimination is against the law.
Big difference and while people may want to avoid her company because they don’t like her attitude, she certainly didn’t deserve what happened to her!
The national response to this whole incident is pathetic. The video itslef is meaningless and inconsequential; except maybe to the UCLA community. All others shoud simply butt out.
Arguments of whether this video was racist or not are irrelevant. The creator of the video is a student at a very big school. She put a video up on a website. SO WHAT. I REPEAT (in all caps, yet) SO WHAT. Why do we infuse her comments with any importance whatsoever. Does she have acedemic credentials? Has she published books, articles, given lectures? Doubtful. So shouldn’t the UCLA administrators dismiss her comments as simply un-informed and thus (again) irrelevant? No such luck.
What would I have the UCLA administration say? How about:
1. Why do we worry about this harmeless rant. This student has no power or authority over others, no ability to do harm: she poses no actual risk. IGNORE HER. Give her opinion the credit it deserves, namely none.
2. Grow a thicker skin. Become less sensitive to percieved insults. The (very) old saw: ‘he who overlooks an insult is wise’ is as valid today as it was when it was written.
Our University leaders should help our youth grow up to be stronger; to stand up to a bit of disharmony and perhpas even (gulp) nastiness. We are way too easily offended. Re-inforcing hyper-sensitivity hinders a young person’s growth towards tolerance of actual meaningful human disagreement. It substitutes protection by ‘authorities’ for strength of character. We rightly protect infants from danger and teach young children the value of respect and decency. As children grow up, good parenting and education encourages them to develop the ability to handle disagreement personally, not by running to an authority figure. Today’s college students need more of the ‘get over it’ mentality; they need to toughen up and learn to resolve real and percieved threats by themselves and for themselves. They need to gain persective, so that they develop the ability to meaningfully dialogue with those holding divergent opinions.
I work in a multi-ethnic environment: a foerigen co-worker once told me that all Jews are rich. She’s a masters level trained financial analyist, and yet she told me all Jews are rich. I think she was only half kidding when she said it, and I felt a tinge of malice in her comment. Truthfully, it rankled; it feltt like an insult. But I just laughed at her. I determined that she was just young and ignorant of the facts, and perhaps had read her Party Manual too carefully. (She hails from a Communist nation). Over time I got to dialogue on the matter and found out how she came by this (unfortunatley) inaccurate viewpoint. (Her Dad, it seems, provided this nugget of wisdom). I got to explain how such a comment really could hurt a Jewish persons feelings. We talked a little more and joked about it. A little humor, a little grace. Worked for me. Worked for her too.
You’d think that the leaders of UCLA could give a simiar lesson, but alas…
Hey, I’m Asian, and that’s some funny stuff. Like a lot of racial comments, it’s grounded in truth.
“Hey, I’m Asian…”
Are you?
You sound like an American to me.
The content of what you said, the words you used, and the way you arranged those words; it all sounds EXACTLY like something I would say.
I wouldn’t want to read too much into just one sentence, but I’m guessing, based on that one sentence, that you and I have a lot more in common than either one of us has with some rice farmer in Fujian Province.
That guy working in a rice paddy is an Asian, but we’re not. We’re Americans. And, if you’re not an American, you’re doing a darn good job of faking it.
I don’t know if you are aware of this but people of Asian decent are born here too.
“I don’t know if you are aware of this but people of Asian decent are born here too”
Yeah, same thing for people of European or African descent…only they aren’t Europeans or Africans…they’re Americans.
At least they are, as far as I’m concerned.
You can call yourself white, black, yellow, Asian, European, African, or a Martian if you want to, but you’re just an American in my eyes.
Of course they are – but don’t pretend that 60 years of segregating students into diffrernt victim groups isn’t going to take hold. People now self-identify as ethnic-Americans.
“Being chivalrous towards enemies results in defeats like the one we are currently experiencing in Wisconsin”
This needs to be updated. The conservative dude won.
Anyway, her comments are meh. Who cares what some white valleygirl says about Asians? Why is it even a big deal? And let’s not forget that Dave Chappelle had a hugely successful, and very funny show focused on making fun of racial stereotypes. But of course, he was black. And Maher? Well, he can do it because he’s a liberal. The Left won’t call out their own when it comes to calling Sarah Palin a twat or a bimbo. These people are hypocrites and liars. They call for civility, and then plan to dump garbage on Rep. Boehner’s lawn. They have no desire for civility, they’re just trying to dupe people into thinking they have the moral high ground when that’s as far from the truth as anything can be. Ignore the Left. Just refute them when it’s necessary. Otherwise, I see no reason to care about what they say. Their media personalities are all tools. Salon, the Times, HBO, they’re all just dolts who lie and spin to make things appear their way.
Agreed Aaron, the left wing are nothing but hypocrites, they won’t call out anyone on their side for BSing around and making complete asses of themselves. Now for those of us on the conservative side, there have been a few times when some commentators on the right have who made fools of themselves and other conservative commentators have called them out for their own stupidity. For instance, last year during the Haiti earthquake, Pat Robertson made a moronic comment and later on that same day, Michael Savage called out Robertson and said that Robertson was wrong for saying that “the people of Haiti are cursed because they practice voodo, etc.”, fact is that Haiti has a large christian population. And a month ago when Glenn Beck made a moronic comment about Japan by saying that “God punished Japan, etc. etc. etc.”, to me that was very stupid what Glenn Beck said. And Aaron, I think that Bill Maher is disgusting “woman-hater”, and I can guarantee you that he doesn’t date women any more, and the samething can be said for Perez Hilton (if I had the chance, I would like to beat up both Bill Maher and Perez Hilton).
“A nation is defined by it’s borders, language & culture”
Well
I cannot argue with this logic.
Someone of one race,
rants about another race with multiple examples of why the behaviors of that Race
and only, the behaviors with regard to that and no other race…
is not Racist, because,
it’s, well, bigoted, instead…and …any way…They do it too!!!
Yeah, That’s it, They do it too!!!
and that’s why … every argument coming from the other side is fallacious, because they are …
JUST EVIL anyway.
All good points to be sure.
Good for you. With reasoning like this you can’t lose.
However and this is just an idea, could it be possible to identify and complain about behaviors one finds objectionable without mentioning Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sex, Color, Size, Place of origin, Creed, or Religion?
that would be a sort of Code, maybe a Code of Honor,
But Nah, it’s a no win, isn’t it gang.
much easier just to identify the all pervasive evil.
simpler too. Down with PC!!
It’s just Evil.. :: ))