So, who held the gun on the editorial staff, while that got written and printed?
There were some truly vile people working for the News-Minus when I lived in Fairbanks 10 to 15 years ago, and apparently at least one of them still works there.
Despite its rep as a Last Frontier, Alaska is hammerlocked by unions whose members like being in control and won’t tolerate challenges to that control. Fairbanks, having been Ground Zero for the unions’ takeover during the pipeline era, is even more so, union-wise, than Alaska in general. They’re worse in some ways than Hells Angels.
It’s a beautiful state. If I didn’t hate snow, I’d consider living there. However, it looks like the kind of place where you’d have to murder someone to get good a job. McGehee’s analysis confirms this suspicion.
Wait… after all the things that they did to her, what they *apologize* for is calling her a “broad” as part of a dumb headline pun?
Good grief.
It’s the kind of apology after reading which you want to take a shower. Underlying the apology is the assumption that Ms. Palin is some delicate lil’ flower of feminity, and will get the vapors, maybe faint, on being called a “broad.” Blech.
D’you suppose they’d apologize for calling a male politician a “son of a bitch?” Hardly. This is just the usual soft bigotry of the left. Remember, women (and minorities and soldiers), you’re not really grown up: you need professionals to look after your pretty little selves, e.g. journalists to tell you what to think, and government to protect you from the bad people who would take advantage of your naivete.
Carl, you have to be careful about soldiers: they’re ripe for right-wing extremist militia recruiting. DHS said so; it must be true. /sarc
You know what’s funny?
That boys are now vastly under represented in colleges which often have taxpayer funded “women’s studies” departments designed to further promote women in society, that white males are being laid at technology companies right now for no other purpose than to bring in non merit selected women technologists. That men’s health issues are swept under the rug while women’s health issues are hugely funded, even though they outlive men by a wide margin. That we have a minority President where no other western Democracy has elected one.
Yet the big discussions in BOTH the left and right media are the “racism” of the Tea Party and (even on this blog) the sexism of the left. So, what’s wrong with this picture? Has the culture been so captured by the left that we’re all using the fourth edition of the Newspeak dictionary? Or are we really such an unpopular minority now that we must operate entirely by the rules of our cultural masters, begging for another bowl of gruel?
ADD:
. . . white males are being laid OFF at . . .
uh, nevermind, it’s better the other way.
K, I think it’s pretty obvious that any sexism displayed by the Left is more a consequence of their contempt for people who don’t share the Left’s politics. Which has also been shown WRT racism, given things like the “Aunt Jemima” photoshop of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, and similar displays of contempt for Michael Steele and Clarence Thomas.
So no, it’s not about embracing PC, it’s about noting that their own devotion to PC is increasingly conditional on the politics of the target.
…which, when you stop and think about it, is why it’s called political correctness.
Or are we really such an unpopular minority now that we must operate entirely by the rules of our cultural masters, begging for another bowl of gruel?
In one word: Yes.
If I’d seen the image with the caption, I’d assume that some spell-checker program did the best it could with what someone typed, not that the wording was a deliberate decision!
So, who held the gun on the editorial staff, while that got written and printed?
There were some truly vile people working for the News-Minus when I lived in Fairbanks 10 to 15 years ago, and apparently at least one of them still works there.
Despite its rep as a Last Frontier, Alaska is hammerlocked by unions whose members like being in control and won’t tolerate challenges to that control. Fairbanks, having been Ground Zero for the unions’ takeover during the pipeline era, is even more so, union-wise, than Alaska in general. They’re worse in some ways than Hells Angels.
It’s a beautiful state. If I didn’t hate snow, I’d consider living there. However, it looks like the kind of place where you’d have to murder someone to get good a job. McGehee’s analysis confirms this suspicion.
Wait… after all the things that they did to her, what they *apologize* for is calling her a “broad” as part of a dumb headline pun?
Good grief.
It’s the kind of apology after reading which you want to take a shower. Underlying the apology is the assumption that Ms. Palin is some delicate lil’ flower of feminity, and will get the vapors, maybe faint, on being called a “broad.” Blech.
D’you suppose they’d apologize for calling a male politician a “son of a bitch?” Hardly. This is just the usual soft bigotry of the left. Remember, women (and minorities and soldiers), you’re not really grown up: you need professionals to look after your pretty little selves, e.g. journalists to tell you what to think, and government to protect you from the bad people who would take advantage of your naivete.
Carl, you have to be careful about soldiers: they’re ripe for right-wing extremist militia recruiting. DHS said so; it must be true. /sarc
You know what’s funny?
That boys are now vastly under represented in colleges which often have taxpayer funded “women’s studies” departments designed to further promote women in society, that white males are being laid at technology companies right now for no other purpose than to bring in non merit selected women technologists. That men’s health issues are swept under the rug while women’s health issues are hugely funded, even though they outlive men by a wide margin. That we have a minority President where no other western Democracy has elected one.
Yet the big discussions in BOTH the left and right media are the “racism” of the Tea Party and (even on this blog) the sexism of the left. So, what’s wrong with this picture? Has the culture been so captured by the left that we’re all using the fourth edition of the Newspeak dictionary? Or are we really such an unpopular minority now that we must operate entirely by the rules of our cultural masters, begging for another bowl of gruel?
ADD:
. . . white males are being laid OFF at . . .
uh, nevermind, it’s better the other way.
K, I think it’s pretty obvious that any sexism displayed by the Left is more a consequence of their contempt for people who don’t share the Left’s politics. Which has also been shown WRT racism, given things like the “Aunt Jemima” photoshop of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, and similar displays of contempt for Michael Steele and Clarence Thomas.
So no, it’s not about embracing PC, it’s about noting that their own devotion to PC is increasingly conditional on the politics of the target.
…which, when you stop and think about it, is why it’s called political correctness.
Or are we really such an unpopular minority now that we must operate entirely by the rules of our cultural masters, begging for another bowl of gruel?
In one word: Yes.
If I’d seen the image with the caption, I’d assume that some spell-checker program did the best it could with what someone typed, not that the wording was a deliberate decision!
I weep for the present.