iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Put Left-wing Speech Control in the Cross HairsBy Dennis Prager, Tuesday, February 1, 2011Quote:
Back to leftist controls on speech: One can only speak of male-female differences if the difference shows the female as superior. Thus to say women are innately more intuitive is perfectly acceptable, but to say men are innately more likely to excel at math is "sexist."
A woman may reveal as much of her body as she wishes. But if a man is perceived by a woman as looking too long at what she reveals, or if he comments on what she reveals, he may be fired from his job and/or sued for "sexual harassment." A woman may wear a miniskirt and crop-top, but a man may not have a calendar of women wearing miniskirts and crop-tops on his desk at work. That constitutes sexual harassment and a "hostile work environment."
It actually goes both ways. Meaning, if a man
doesn't respond to a woman who goes out of her way to appear sexy, he can also get himself in a heap of trouble (but, in most instances, still less trouble than if he does his level best to try to ignore them). Also, by far the raunchiest magazines for sale in the grocery stores, with pictures of very sexy women and titilliating titles, are those aimed at women. A man dare not glance furtively within.
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Graphic torture and frontal nudity may be shown on screen, but smoking cigars or cigarettes may not. A Churchill museum in London has removed the cigars from wartime Churchill photographs, FDR has had his ubiquitous cigarette holder removed from his photographs, and the cigarettes have been removed from the Beatles' hands in the famous photo of them crossing Abbey Road.
I'm all for frontal nudity, but I can do without the graphic torture and the smoking.
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Already, "crusade" has been removed from Americans' vocabulary -- lest it offend Muslims. Overnight, the left effectively banned the use of a perfectly legitimate word that usually described an admirable preoccupation with doing good -- "that newspaper is on an anti-corruption crusade."
And, lest we forget, "the Left is on a Noble Crusade to outlaw the word
crusade."
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If you love liberty, you must target the left and put its totalitarian tendencies in your cross hairs. We must shoot down political correctness and wage a crusade for truth and liberty. All those ladies and gentlemen who cherish personal and societal freedom must fight like great Indian chiefs, braving secondhand smoke if need be, in affirming a masculinity that has been under relentless attack. And yes, we must even endure the taunts of our foes and, at the appropriate time of the year, wish fellow Americans a "Merry Christmas."
Is this part of a "pro-smoking" campaign? I will not be subjected to second-hand smoke, and, to affirm my masculinity, will exercise my second amendment rites against anyone who smokes anywhere near me.
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Then, and only then, will we be able to vanquish lies, defeat the foes of liberty, and once again be able to proudly sing a national anthem that affirms that "the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there."
If we don't, that line in "The Star-Spangled Banner" will go the way of "Merry Christmas."
Well, the Star Spangled Banner really isn't that great of a song (and the high notes are a bit of a strain for a lot of voices). And, you're right, "bombs bursting through air" isn't quite the imagery we want in a song that is supposed to be emblematic of a civilized nation. Maybe we could get Miley Cyrus to write a new national anthem, that would be played repeatedly by radio stations. At least then we could get kids to sing it.
01 Feb 2011, 9:55 pm
