In the last thread Wretchard talked about the PC-enabled process that shoves both jihad and leftist fanatics along an extremist path until they are pushed (or push themselves) over a cliff – vide Ft Hood, Seattle, LA murders or any of the FBI-quashed attacks of the past 1/2 year. Since we can’t call out or name the pathologies in any official way, we end up, after the fact, wondering what happened. “He was such a nice guy…” etc..

For the left to name the problem (jihad or leftist extremism) is to conjure it out of thin air. A couple Seattle examples. 1) A few years back Lakeside High School (Bill Gates’ high school) invited Dinesh D’Souza to speak. Then a couple black parents complained that since Dinesh was known for being against affirmative action he would be considered offensive by certain students and staff. Viola. Dinesh is uninvited.
2) on Halloween night two Seattle police were shot at while sitting in a squad car. One policeman died instantly. Yesterday the city held a memorial for the slain officer in a large arena (Key Arena); even before the memorial was finished, the cops were chasing down the main suspect. He was a tall, good-looking young black man, 40ish. The cops approached him for questioning and he ran. He also fired a gun at them. The cops engaged and shot him. He is now in critical condition in hospital. Turns out suspect was an intermittent student of criminal justice. In addition, he fits every slot of the fatherless angry young black man and in this case leftist (he was known for his outspoken hatred of Bush and the US criminal justice system, e.g. rigged against the black man, etc); it really looks like he was nudged and encouraged through his spotty academic career PC prone teachers who glowed upon his various project e.g. designing a jury system that would automatically aquit black men whether guilty or no. You can see his professors just praising him to the skies and showering him with scholarship after scholarship…

Well this is all pretty raw and unclear just now but I believe Wretchards template of PC justice – in which the good guys (in this case the cop) get it in the neck at the expense of promoting psychotic haters within our institutions is under full power just now.