Things That Just Piss Me Off

I blog about political correctness all the time because it really does piss me off. It’s ok to try not to be outright offensive to people. Using racial slurs and such is wrong. We all agree on that.

However, people have gotten so sensitive or fearful that they might offend someone they are afraid to state facts or they put their facts into some kind of politically correct statement that fails to get the truth across.

Examples;

If I use the phrase “Illegal Aliens” some people will say that is racist. They want to call them “Undocumented Workers”.

Undocumented workers suggests that all illegal aliens in this country work and that their status is practically legal. A fact not in evidence.

Then we are supposed to believe that they only take jobs Americans will not do. Again not a factual statement. Americans will take $10 per hour construction jobs and recently a guy was found out as an illegal alien and was working as a police officer, another job American workers will do.

Wikipedia: Illegal immigration refers to immigration across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. Under this definition, an illegal immigrant is a foreigner who either has illegally crossed an international political border, be it by land, sea, or air, or a foreigner who has entered a country legally but then overstays his/her Visa in order to live and/or work there.

If you fit into that sentence above, you are an ILLEGAL ALIEN. That is not a racial slur.

Yet, just discussing these facts by many people’s standards is racist. Truth doesn’t matter to the PC crowd.

If you live in a city where neighborhoods are still pretty much divided among racial lines and a report comes out that says crime is higher in a specific ethnic neighborhood, then there are those that will say you are a racist and you are purposely demeaning the people of a particular race.

It doesn’t matter that the report was absolutely factual. You just can’t say it because some group or another will call the report racist.

It’s no longer politically correct to tell the truth or put out any report, no matter if it is factual or not if it sheds a bad light on any particular group of people.

Like this story in the NYTimes

After Linking New Strain of Staph to Gay Men, University Scrambles to Clarify
By JESSE McKINLEY

On Monday, a team of researchers led by doctors from the University of California at San Francisco announced that gay men were “many times more likely than others” to acquire a new strain of drug-resistant staphylococcus, a nasty, fast-spreading and potential lethal bacteria known as MRSA USA300. And sure enough, the study, published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was quickly picked up by reporters round the world and across the Internet, including a London tabloid which dubbed the disease “the new H.I.V.”

But for gay men in the Castro neighborhood here, which was an early epicenter for the AIDS epidemic and a current hot spot for MRSA, the report also seemed to cast an unfair, and all too familiar, stigma on their sexuality.

“The way they keep targeting gays as if gays alone are responsible for it, its like H.I.V./AIDS all over again,” said Colin Thurlow, 60, who is gay and lives in San Francisco. “And we’re sick and tired of it.”

It doesn’t matter that the University was trying to warn gay men about the disease. It doesn’t matter that the report might be factual. it only matters that it might shed a bad light on gays. We can’t have that.

On Friday, it issued an apology, saying their release had “contained some information that could be interpreted as misleading.” “I think we were looking at this from a scientific point of view and not projecting any political impact,” he said. “We were focusing on the data.

Worse than the politically correct crowd are the apologists. If the report was not factual, apologize. But if the report was factual, then there is no need for an apology.

The report looked at nine San Francisco hospitals in 2004 and 2005. A separate part of the study, conducted at an AIDS clinic in the city from 2004 to 2006, found that gay men were 13 times more likely to be infected with MRSA USA300.

The report did not say, “only gays get this disease.” The report did not say “this disease started in the gay community.” The report did not say, “Gays are responsible for the spread of the disease”.

The report said that THEIR STUDY showed that gay men were more at risk from the disease. The report also said their study was limited in scope as far as the areas the study was conducted in. No one there meant to harm the gay community. They simply stated facts and should be able to do so without risking the anger of the politically correct crowd.