The Language Police are alive and well in Obamaland. If a woman can be charged, and fined $75, for telling her neighbor’s kids to stop climbing around in a tree like monkeys, what might the penalty have been if she’d used a racial epithet? Perhaps she would have been hauled off to jail…
Can one be charged with disorderly conduct for any “insensitive” remark that hurts somebody’s feelings, or does it only apply if the person whose feelings are hurt belongs to a minority group? How about if the person who hurts the other person’s feelings is of the same race as the person whose feelings are hurt? Could they still be charged?
If somebody remarked that someone was as clumsy as an ox, would it be considered disorderly conduct if the person remarked upon was overweight and sensitive about being compared to an ox? How about blonde jokes? Are they illegal, too?
What’s most disturbing about the Language Police is that there’s really no difference between the Language Police and the Thought Police. After all, it’s not the word “monkey” that’s illegal, it’s what the speaker was allegedly thinking when she used that word. This is where unchecked liberalism leads…
