A Progressive’s Guide to Political Correctness|5 Minute Vide…
A Progressive’s Guide to Political Correctness|5 Minute Video
Are there ever “enough” guidelines governing the jokes we tell, the mascots of sports groups, or the symbols on city seals? George Will, Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, imagines what a picturesque politically proper universe would look like.
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Script:
How upset can progressives make themselves? There’s a real competitors going on. And it’s sweeping the nation: progressive vs. progressive contending to see who can most flamboyantly declare to be upset; to announce that their sensations have actually been harmed; or that their sensitivities have been rubbed raw; or their serenity disrupted; or their composure discombobulated, by something that someone has actually said. Or by something they have seen. Such as a Confederate flag or a structure called after Woodrow Wilson.
Actually, I believe progressives are not sufficiently creative. The Washington Post paper is– if it will pardon the expression– on the warpath versus the name of the Washington Redskins football group. The Washington Post takes its name from its city … which is called for George Washington, who was not only a servant owner; he was a tobacco farmer, which some progressives most likely believe is nearly as dreadful.
Certainly the Post must alter its name– and must demand that the nation’s capital be renamed. Maybe as Eleanor Roosevelt City. Clearly it can not be called for her spouse– he who ordered the internment in concentration camps of 117,000 persons of Japanese descent, two-thirds of whom were native-born American citizens.
And there are hundreds of other towns, counties, parks, and schools named for Washington. Such as Washington and Lee University. Good grief: The name is double hate speech: Robert E. Lee really commanded the Confederate Army.
Washington is not the only name progressives need to scrutinize. The word “Oklahoma” is a compound of two words from the Choctaw language– words implying “red” and “people.” If it is intolerable to have a football team named “Redskins,” it should be worse to have actually a state named “Red People.” But let’s return to cleaning America of all discusses of historical figures who were less than best progressives.
On the Tidal Basin in Washington there is a memorial for the slave-owning Thomas Jefferson. This memorial should have a “trigger warning” sculpted into its marble.
Jacksonville, Florida, and Jackson, Mississippi, and numerous other locations and things, are named for Andrew Jackson, the tormentor of Native Americans. All need to be relabelled for someone who was saintly, as progressives understand saintliness.
And speaking of saints:
Certainly good progressives are distressed by the names of St. Louis, St. Petersburg, San Diego, San Antonio– not to point out Corpus Christi.
When courts rule that non-denominational prayers at high school graduations breach the separation of church and state, progressives like it. Why, then, do not they consider it a constitutional outrage that there are cities called for spiritual figures? Consisting of Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco. If progressives will pardon the expression– the Vatican of American progressivism, that city is–.
Progressives ought to demand that all such cities be renamed for progressive saints. Tony Bennett might sing, “I left my heart in Nancy Pelosi City.” Or we might offer these names that give no offense because they have no significance.
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And it’s sweeping the nation: progressive vs. progressive contending to see who can most flamboyantly declare to be offended; to declare that their feelings have actually been hurt; or that their sensitivities have been rubbed raw; or their tranquility interrupted; or their composure discombobulated, by something that someone has stated. The Washington Post takes its name from its city … which is called for George Washington, who was not only a slave owner; he was a tobacco farmer, which some progressives most likely believe is practically as terrible.
Washington is not the only name progressives must inspect. That city is– if progressives will pardon the expression– the Vatican of American progressivism.
Progressives ought to require that all such cities be renamed for progressive saints.
