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’Tis the Season to Be Politically Correct

December 23, 2010 - 12:10 pm - by Roger Kimball
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2010-12-26 09:47:53

…Freedom of expression, regardless of who might be “offended;”

Do not fail to turn the weapon of ‘taking offense’ back on its inventors. We have, through our American sense of tolerance, given it the status of trumps, and backed off when faced by ‘offended’ activists. The leftist users of it have, Alinsky-like, made undeserved advances against us.

So grab that cudgel too. It may take using some street-activism, as the tea parties did, but a loud group of carolers with ‘Merry Christmas – You Got A Problem With That?’ picket signs, in front of a PC Mayor’s office, might help in curing her insufferable decrees of ‘oh-so-happy holidays-or-else’ when put up on YouTube.