Don Quixote on Jul 13 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Political correctness
First, thanks to all of you who have posted such interesting, informative and intelligent comments the past two weeks. You always make my time here enjoyable and educational. Still, I’m glad Bookworm is back and ready to bring you her wide diversity of posts, and her thoughtfullness and intelligence that make the Bookwormroom such a [...]
Bookworm on Apr 01 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Education, England, GBLT, Political correctness
In the world of presidential elections, we’re watching the fascinating spectacle of clashing identity politics. Neither Hillary nor Obama has a strong resume (or even a medium resume). Each is distinguished from the other, and from others in the field (remember Silky Pony?) solely because of gender or race. He’s black (sort of); she’s female [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Feminism, Identity politics, Political correctness
Noemie Emery perfectly summarizes the nightmare the Dems have created for themselves:
Sometime back in the 1990s, when the culture wars were the only ones we thought we had going, a cartoon showed three coworkers viewing each other with narrowed and questioning eyes. “Those whites don’t know how to deal with a competent black man,” the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 30 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Islam, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Political correctness
I won’t go into the genesis of the teddy bear kerfuffle, because I assume you know all about it, including the fact that a Sudanese court imprisoned a British woman for 15 days for naming a teddy bear Muhammad, an insult that apparently has the prophet rolling in his grave.
The teacher claims, with corroboration, that [...]
Bookworm on Oct 05 2007 | Filed under: Media matters, Political correctness, Presidential elections
One of the things candidates cannot afford to be seen as is vicious. Nevertheless, especially in unstable, dangerous times, we want our candidates to be strong. Writing at Red State, Erick believes that the Republican candidates would do well to show a little strength in dealing with Chris Matthews, who is currently slated [...]
Bookworm on Oct 03 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Political correctness
As George Michael knows, it is illegal in England to have sex in public places. So, when four fireman discovered four men have sex in the bushes in a park, they could have caused a citizens arrest (if they do that in England), or called the cops on them. Instead, they just shined [...]
Bookworm on Sep 06 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Political correctness
Political correctness is deeply invested in affirming all possible positive stereotypes about whatever group happens to be classified as the victim of straight white male culture (and that would be usually Jewish or Christian straight white male culture). To that end, it shies away from any unpleasant realities that might interfere with these positive [...]
Bookworm on Aug 16 2007 | Filed under: Education, Free speech, Political correctness
FIRE has targeted the University of Maryland at College Park as one of the most repressive colleges in America. It’s created an environment governed entirely by giving all self-styled victims the right to take offense, with no vestige of the traditional Western university model of the free exchange of ideas. Given this narrow, [...]
Bookworm on Jul 31 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Communism, Cuba, Education, Leftist morality, Multiculturalism, Political correctness
The Left (both at home and abroad) likes to revile the infamous American President “Chimpy-BusHitler,” but they seem to be taking a pass on some people that even the Left would have to concede have a bit more blood on their hands. Mike Adams and the American Thinker take on the results of that, [...]
Bookworm on Jul 27 2007 | Filed under: Feminism, Media matters, Political correctness
I’ve been reading the New York Times’ movie reviews for decades now. I don’t know if they were always so politicized and laden with PC instruction, and I just didn’t notice, or if they’ve gotten more and more liberally pedantic with the passage of time. I do know, though, that today’s set [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2007 | Filed under: Law, Muslim violence, Political correctness
You’ve no doubt heard that the Six Imams, as part of their legal strategy, have named as “John Doe” defendants in their lawsuit some of the people who alerted the authorities about the fact that the Imam’s were behaving in a peculiar and threatening way. That threat, to drag citizens into litigation, might have been a [...]
Bookworm on Mar 02 2007 | Filed under: Culture, Hollywood, Political correctness
I don’t know what Tina Fey’s politics are, and I don’t want to know. The NBC show 30 Rock, which she writes and in which she stars is one of the best social satires around, which includes repeated deft and funny political asides. The show skewers both parties with such a light touch [...]
Bookworm on Feb 28 2007 | Filed under: Democrats, Immigration, Leftist morality, Political correctness
Because the Left is so exquisitely attuned to pejorative words, a Florida Democrat wants to ban the State government’s use of the phrase “illegal alien,” preferring the oh so much more polite and non-judgmental “undocumented immigrant.” Please pass me the barf bag. This attempt to dress up illegal conduct in pretty words is making me [...]
Bookworm on Feb 15 2007 | Filed under: Political correctness
My political transformation occurred, in large part, because the Democrats began embracing positions that have always been alien to my political and social belief system. That is, I didn’t leave the Democrats, they left me. It looks as if the liberals are working on alienating yet another demographic, although at least one person [...]
Bookworm on Jan 11 2007 | Filed under: Europe, Immigration, Political correctness
My own empirical observations have led me to conclude that, in America, those who are most PC are also those who are most likely to be Europhiles. That is, the political left loves Europe. (John Kerry would be Exhibit A in this category.) That’s why I was surprised to see how un-PC [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2006 | Filed under: Political correctness
Little Bookworm joined with the school chorus last week to sing in its holiday concert. Interestingly, not a single song in the repertoire had anything to do with Christmas. There was the bland and generic ode to some (unnamed) holiday season, there were lugubrious songs about dark winter’s days and, for reasons unclear, [...]
Bookworm on Dec 05 2006 | Filed under: Britain, Islam, Muslim violence, Political correctness
I think for many of us, England is one of the old world countries inextricably entwined with images of Christmas. When I think of England, I think of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol; of the Christmas tree, which the Germanic British royals elevated from a quaint German custom into a national Anglo tradition; and, [...]
Bookworm on Dec 05 2006 | Filed under: Feminism, Political correctness
The Washington Post has picked up and expanded upon the story about Bonnie Bleskachek, the Minneapolis fire chief recently fired for all sorts of sexual and discriminatory shenanigans. It makes for fascinating reading if you don’t mind that your local fire house sounds like a lesbian Peyton Place with a dollop of man hatred [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2006 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Political correctness
Watch this, and you won’t be surprised that “progressives” are trying to ban it from YouTube:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Qx4u-Uua8]
I’d like to add something profound, but I can’t. The video pretty much says it all.
Hat tip: Flopping Aces
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Bookworm on Nov 30 2006 | Filed under: Political correctness
In the wake of the Michael Richards scandal, Jesse Jackson has thoughtfully stepped forward to announce a new addition to the Orwellian NewSpeak pantheon: the deletion of a word from the English language (and you know which word I mean).
I wasn’t really paying attention to this whole thing because (a) I’m bored by now [...]
Bookworm on Nov 27 2006 | Filed under: Media matters, Omeed Aziz Popal, Political correctness
Omeed Aziz Popal, the Fremont, California, man who went on a car fueled rampage in August, during which he killed one man and injured 18 others (including one woman who ended up paralyzed from the neck down) will be tried:
Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, faces 18 counts of attempted murder for the Aug. 29 rampage. Judge [...]
Bookworm on Oct 19 2006 | Filed under: Britain, England, Europe, France, Immigration, Islam, Multiculturalism, Political correctness
As you know, there is a big debate going on in England right now about the veil. Those who support the veil are framing this support in terms of religious freedom. However, veils are not an integral part of the Muslim religion. Instead, they are a product of Arab culture. (Indeed, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 16 2006 | Filed under: Islam, Multiculturalism, Political correctness
We Americans are very respectful of other people’s cultures. The old “ugly American” of 1950s stereotypes died on college campuses in the 1960s, to be replaced by the multiculturalist, PC American who would never dream of challenging the way in which another culture conducts itself. The most recent example of our American deference is the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2006 | Filed under: Muslim violence, Political correctness
From Jonah Goldberg’s latest:
The best book for illuminating what’s going on in the Muslim “street” isn’t some weighty treatise on Islam; it’s a short little tract called “White Guilt” by Shelby Steele. The book isn’t even about Islam. Steele focuses on white liberals and the black radicals who’ve been gaming them ever since the 1960s. [...]
Bookworm on Sep 01 2006 | Filed under: Education, Political correctness
A nice companion piece to my (I hope polite) rant about the effect of quotas on the materials presented to California school children shows up in this Daniel Golden article about how school textbook publishers are desperate to meet their quota requirements. After describing the nice wheel and crutch props Houghton Mifflin Co keeps [...]
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