Posts with the tag 'political correctness'
Geesh!
Fried shrimp on a bed of jasmine rice and a side of mango salad, all served on a styrofoam plate. Bottled water to wash it all down.
These trendy catering treats are unlikely to appear on the menu at parties sponsored by the Denver 2008 Host Committee during the Democratic National Convention this summer.
Fried foods are forbidden at the committee’s 22 or so events, as is liquid served in individual plastic containers. Plates must be reusable, like china, recyclable or compostable. The food should be local, organic or both.
And caterers must provide foods in “at least three of the following five colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple, and white,” garnishes not included, according to a Request for Proposals, or RFP, distributed last week.
The shrimp-and-mango ensemble? All it’s got is white, brown and orange, so it may not have the nutritional balance that generally comes from a multihued menu.
“Blue could be a challenge,” joked Ed Janos, owner of Cook’s Fresh Market in Denver. “All I can think of are blueberries.”
What a bunch of sissies! Watch out, Democrats, there might be some grease in your food! Here’s the dialogue I imagine:
NEA Pinhead: So, you’re here for Obama, too?
AFSCME Pinhead: Yes! I’m so excited!
NEA P: Me, too! I get that tingly feeling down my leg whenever I even think about hearing him speak!
AFSCME P: Gosh! I thought I was the only one!
NEA P: Have you been to the buffet line yet?
AFSCME P: Yes, and they’ve got an organic Gratin Dauphinoise created by a local transgendered, differently-abled chef of color that is to die for.
NEA P: Perfect! By the way, how are you voting on the abortion plank for the platform?
AFSCME P: Federally funded abortion on demand, as always! Gotta show we care, right?
Tags: Democratic Convention, political correctness
May 20th, 2008
We seem to be having a bit of fun with this one, so lets have at it some more.
And still having fun with it…
Thank you, liberalism, for making this possible:
Two primary schools have withdrawn storybooks about same-sex relationships after objections from Muslim parents.
Up to 90 gathered at the schools to complain about the books which are aimed at pupils as young as five.
One story, titled King & King, is a fairytale about a prince who turns down three princesses before marrying one of their brothers.
Another named And Tango Makes Three features two male penguins who fall in love at a New York zoo.
Bristol City Council said the two schools had been using the books to ensure they complied with gay rights laws which came into force last April.
They were intended to help prevent homophobic bullying, it said.
But the council has since removed the books from Easton Primary School and Bannerman Road Community School, both in Bristol.
A book and DVD titled That’s a Family!, which teaches children about different family set-ups including gay or lesbian parents, has also been withdrawn.
The decision was made to enable the schools to “operate safely” after parents voiced their concerns at meetings.
What to do, what to do? Just how will our liberals square this circle? They must accord special rights to the Moslem minority, but they also need to accord special rights to the gay minority - and as the Moslem minority has a subset bent on beheading the gay minority, just how are we to “all get along”? Will more welfare make everyone play nice? Perhaps Obama can head over there and organize the Gay and Moslem communities into a loving fellowship?
Conservatives have no problem with this - we hit the gay rights people over the head with a two by four as a means of emphasising the point that you don’t teach five year olds about homosexuality; we then re-employ that same two by four on the Moslems who pitched a fit as a means of hammering home (as it were) the need to respect freedom of speech in the West. As conservatives, we find endless uses for the “two by four” debate method - though we find at times that only high explosives can solve the really tricky problems (al Qaeda, Berkeley, eg).
I don’t suppose that this impass with convince liberals that, you know, justice should be the goal? That, just perhaps, people should be treated as people and not as “gay”, “black”, “female”, “Moslem”, etc?
Tags: multiculturalism, political correctness
April 12th, 2008
The discussion continues…
No, not just the recent book of that title, but in actual practice:
TORONTO, FEB. 5, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Catholic Insight, a Canadian magazine known for its fidelity to Church teachings, has been targeted by the Canadian Human Rights Commission for publishing articles deemed offensive to homosexuals.
The commission has been investigating the Toronto-based publication since homosexual activist Rob Wells, a member of the Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Pride Center of Edmonton, filed a nine-point complaint last February with the government agency in which he accuses the magazine of promoting “extreme hatred and contempt” against homosexuals.
Father Alphonse de Valk, the founder and editor of Catholic Insight, disagrees the accusations. “Wells took three pages of quotes out of context,” he told ZENIT.
The Basilian priest added that Catholic Insight “bases itself on the Church’s teaching and applies it to various circumstances in our time.” He noted that some of the statements that allegedly promoted hatred and contempt against homosexuals were taken from recent Vatican pronouncements.
Other types of statements published by Catholic Insight on the topic of homosexuality include political statements, medical studies, news reports and other studies. Many of the articles concerned addressed the campaign in Canada to legalize same-sex marriage, which Catholic Insight openly opposed.
“The basic view of the Church is that homosexual acts are a sin, but we love the sinner,” said Father de Valk, adding that opposing same-sex marriage is not the same as rejecting homosexuals as persons.
The priest said that homosexual activists are broadly defining opposition to homophobia as opposition to any homosexual act: “They maintain that the whole Catholic Church is homophobic.”
Demonise and then destroy; that has been a standard leftwing tactic since the left first began its baleful run through human history. The good father is right - the pro-gay groups, by and large, do maintain that the Catholic Church - and Christianity in general - are homophobic; inherently bigoted against gay people for no rational cause. While some Christians do go waaay the heck overboard on the matter, the plain facts are that Christianity holds homosexual acts to be inherently disordered, but that there is no sin inherent in homosexuality. But this bit of truth - that we welcome with love our brothers and sisters who have a deep-seated attraction towards members of the same sex - is not wanted in the ranks of the gay activists. Its impossible to hate someone, you see, who is loving you and only pointing out - rather mildly, for the most part - that gay sex is not a proper sexual relation. But you can hate a bigot who is just doing evil for the sake of evil…and thus the Church is homophobic, and Church teachings aren’t the Word of God, but a sick attempt at denying basic human rights to gay people.
This is unfolding entirely as we predicted when “hate crimes” laws were first proposed - we pointed out right at the start that while there might be an admirable goal (stopping people from being victimised for their skin color, creed, sexual orientation or what have you), the practical effect of “hate crimes” laws would be to make illegal anything anyone with a gripe claims is insulting. While the debate revolved around whether “fag!” is hate speech, the reality is that “Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. (Rom 1:24-27)” would become hate speech, just as soon as the laws were passed and someone decided to take up the matter in court.
Just as you can’t be a little bit pregnant, so you can’t be a little bit enslaved. You either are, or you aren’t. Right now the liberal fasicsts of the world are desperately trying to enslave us to their worldview - to make us the unthinking pawns in their game of utopia-building. One of the primary ways of fastening the shackles to us is to take away anything which might give us uncomfortable (for liberals) ideas, or even the desire to ask difficult questions. They on the left want a lot of serfs, not free men and women…and now, in parts of the west, they are trying to proscripe Truth; to take it away, and replace it with a series of comfortable lies. We cannot allow them to get away with it here in this last bastion of freedom, the United States of America.
Tags: Acts of Hatred, Catholic Church, Liberal Fascism, political correctness
February 11th, 2008
With a bow to Monty Python.
More seriously, the PC-fascists of Canada are seemingly on a rampage these days going after free men and women of Canada at the behest of Islamo-fascists who claim that Mohammed is offended by this or that word or action. Click here to see a video of Ezra Levant, publisher of The Western Standard, telling a government pinhead where she can go with her inquisition.
And, lefties, if you ever see President Bush or any agent of our government doing this sort of thing, that would be an indicator that someone is trying to take your rights away.
Tags: Canada, political correctness
January 14th, 2008
Rather sad, actually:
Conn Esq Web Design was originally intended to be a corporation offering internet design and programming services, holding Free Dominion as an example of its production. But in the past year the corporation has begun to see ownership of Free Dominion as too much of a potential liability because the website has become a target for individuals and government organizations determined to attack freedom of speech, using a variety of methods at their disposal. Considering the political climate in Canada today, Conn Esq Web Design Ltd. has made the corporate decision to sell Free Dominion to Liberty News Service Inc. of Panama City, Panama.
Liberty News Service’s corporate mission is to buy websites from individuals and corporations living in countries where free speech is under attack, and protect those websites from being shut down or seized by oppressive governments.
What is the trouble? Well, you can get a barely legible complaint (PDF) filed against your publication by a radical Islamist, and one of Canada’s varied “human rights commissions” can haul you before a tribunal (PDF) to answer the charges. Even if you prevail, its going to cost you time and money to defend yourself…so, better to bow down and give up freedom of speech…or “outsource” your liberty to Panama. Free Dominion is just pre-emptively avoiding having to defend basic freedom of speech against fascist, PC-police in Canada.
One upon a time, Canada generously poured out its blood and treasure to defend freedom - now it attacks freedom in order to prevent incipient tryants from being allegedly offended.
Tags: Freedom of speech, political correctness
January 12th, 2008
Just frightening to see this sort of totalitarianism in an allegedly democratic nation:
Another Canadian publication has come under attack for its opinions through the agency of the government-funded Canadian Human Rights Commissions (HRC). Closely following an uproar in the media against government-sponsored censorship via HRC against Maclean’s magazine and columnist Mark Steyn and an Alberta HRC judgment ordering Alberta news media to not publish any comments on homosexuality by a Christian pastor, Toronto’s Catholic Insight magazine has reported they stand accused in an HRC complaint of “targeting homosexuals”.
Catholic Insight is a Catholic political and cultural general interest magazine that regularly and accurately expounds orthodox Catholic teaching, based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, on homosexuality as well as harmful consequences to individual persons and society of the active homosexual “lifestyle”.
The magazine now reveals that Rob Wells, a homosexual activist associated with the Pride Centre of Edmonton, in February this year filed a nine-point complaint against Catholic Insight. Wells alleges that the magazine made “negative generalizations” about homosexuals; portrayed them as preying upon children, as dangerous and “devoid of any redeeming qualities and…innately evil”.
Catholic Insight (CI), however, bases its editorial policy very strictly on Catholic Church teaching which is at pains to separate what it says is the deviant behaviour and disordered inclination of homosexuality from the person.
In Canada, if you file a complaint against some one or some entity with the Human Rights Commission, your case is carried forward entirely at taxpayer expense - a huge incentive for activists to use the HRC as a tool of intimidation against persons or groups they find offensive for whatever reason. Boiled down, what Catholic Insight did was teach standard Catholic doctrine on the subject of homosexuality - and it now is on trial merely because of this expression of opinion. This is in Canada - but it is the sort of thing the political left wishes to bring here with their campaigns for “hate crimes” laws and changes to anti-discrimination laws to include “sexual orientation”.
Fundamentally, this is what we get when hatred is allowed the free use of lies to get its way - Rob Wells hates the Catholic Church because of the Church’s views on homosexual sex. Because of this unreasoning hatred, Wells wants to lash out at the Church - and his tool of choice is a lie. It is patently absurd for anyone to claim they feel threatened by Catholics stating the Catholic position on homosexuality. One might feel offended by it, but no on has a right to not be offended - Wells doesn’t feel threatened; and he knows he’s lying when he says otherwise. The Catholics under attack by Wells know he’s lying. The members of the Human Rights Commission know he’s lying. His friends and family know he’s lying. You, dear reader, know that he’s lying and, of course, I know he’s lying. But the farce will be maintained - everyone will proceed as if Wells weren’t lying. And in the by and by, we might see the Canadian HRC ruling in Wells favor because they, too, hate the Catholic Church and will use whatever comes to hand - even a transparant lie - to hammer the Church.
If anyone wonders why I fight so ardently against the left it is because of this - because of the hatred and dishonesty in service of hatred so prevalent on the left. The American left has been partially stymied in their attempts to make us a carbon copy of Canada and/or the EU, but it is what they want, and for the same reason - because they hate.
Tags: Canada, Catholic Church, Christianity, free speech, homosexuality, political correctness
December 21st, 2007
Just disgusting:
A family doctor faces being struck off for daring to suggest to women seeking an abortion that they should think twice.
Dr Tammie Downes says at least eight grateful mothers have children today which they would have terminated until she asked them to consider the consequences.
But Dr Downes, 36, is now being investigated by the General Medical Council for a possible breach of ethical guidelines.
If charged and found guilty of professional misconduct, she could be removed from the medical register and forced from her job.
The GMC, which regulates doctors, is understood to have received a complaint from another doctor who claims Dr Downes is promoting her anti-abortion views to patients.
Doctors must not allow personal opinions to affect their advice.
From “do no harm” to “don’t dare ask someone to think twice” - the low to which medicine has fallen in Great Britain…and would fall here in the United States, if the pro-abortion fanatics had their way with it. As I’ve said before, you can be on firm moral groiund, or you can be in favor of abortion - you can’t be both. To be in favor of this inhuman practice is to eventually cease in a meaningful way to be humane - be pro-abortion, and it is easy to become a person who would turn another person in to the authorities for merely suggesting that someone think twice before going forward with a decision to have an abortion.
Abortion is wrong, period. We must end it, as swiftly as possible - if we wish to remain civilized, then the very least we must do is ensure that unborn children are not murdered.
Tags: abortion, political correctness
November 27th, 2007
