From The Freedom Outlaw…
…which immediately reminded me of this story from sometime in the Late Cretaceous…
D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams said yesterday that he will rehire a former top aide who resigned last month because some city employees were offended that the aide used the word “niggardly” in describing how he would have to manage a fund’s tight budget.
Williams, whose quick acceptance of David Howard’s resignation last month led to a national debate over racial sensitivity and political correctness, indicated in a statement yesterday that he had made a mistake and “acted too hastily” in allowing Howard to resign as head of the city’s constituent services office.
And probably a million more stories like it.
Hmm. I need to light a big pile of faggots to get rid of all the chiggers around here.
Anyhow, I grew up in farm country north of Detroit, I went to visit a friend of mine who lived off of Fenkel in the big D. As I was standing on his porch waiting for him to answer the door, I saw a raccoon start to climb up his downspout. In my best hick voice I yelled, as loud as I could “Get out of here you Goddam coon!” He opened the door, grabbed me by the shirt, pulled me into the house and informed me about certain racial terms. 🙂
In addition to morons hyperventilating about “chinks” in armor and David Howard’s pummeling for “niggardly” budget allocations, I’d like to add Shirley Sherrod’s epic reaming through the magic of audio editing. She told a story of her initial biases and how she wisely overcame them; then got creamed when the “I overcame my failings” part was edited out to make her look like David Duke’s evil reverse doppleganger.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/21/AR2010072103871.html
https://adaptivecurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/shirley-sherrod-is-david-howard/
Yeah. As I recall, the Sherrod story was where I first noticed that a: Andrew Breitbart existed, and b: He was a real dick.
Somehow the original stupid never bothers me much. What can you say? The PC crowd just advertises its ignorance. But it’s no surprise.
It’s the apologies that bug the hell out of me. How did human males get so neutered? Why don’t they just tell people to blow it out their ignorant asses?
My vote is that those two gents were being sarcastic. As this blog proves, there’re still some sane people in the world.