{"id":3701,"date":"2008-11-26T07:23:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T12:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2008-11-26T07:23:46","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T12:23:46","slug":"its-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3701","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not So Much…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…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<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

[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.”<\/p>\n

The moves boil down to political correctness.<\/p>\n

“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<\/strong>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/em>“.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

The majority is part of a “diverse” group, too…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}