It’s Not So Much…
By Mitch Berg
…that I’m going to plead “discrimination against Christians” as I’m going to assert that an awful lot of secularists and self-appointed PC cops are so very very irritating (emphasis added):
[Florida Gulf Coast University] administration has banned all holiday decorations from common spaces on campus and canceled a popular greeting card design contest, which is being replaced by an ugly sweater competition. In Griffin Hall, the university’s giving tree for needy preschoolers has been transformed into a “giving garden.”
The moves boil down to political correctness.
“Public institutions, including FGCU, often struggle with how best to observe the season in ways that honor and respect all traditions,” President Wilson Bradshaw wrote in a memo to faculty and staff Thursday. “This is a challenging issue each year at FGCU, and 2008 is no exception. While it may appear at times that a vocal majority of opinion is the only view that is held, this is not always the case.”
The mistake with this particular noxious dialect of PC is that nothing in human life, in social interaction, and in civil society is “always the case“. No opinion, majority or minority, need or should be “always” front and center in the public view; neither should the majority be squelched because it’s not unanimous.
The majority is part of a “diverse” group, too…
November 26th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I went to school with a kid whose father was a racist. He said his dad would not allow rice in the house because it was “ch*nk food”. That’s the way I see the anti-Christmas tree types. They have such a hatred of Christianity, that even secular symbols such as a pine tree are offensive to them.