PC Politically Convenient

There is an increasingly valid argument for ditching the hypocrisy of political correctness. I am not advocating an open go for hate and vilification of racist or any other of the myriad points of prejudice.

What I do argue is that PC is little more than a cover, the whipped cream which hides the faults of the pudding beneath.

The fact is that every level of a society the strong will attack the weak below them, with the very weakest regarded as fair game for all.

But more to the point it is not simply fear and ignorance, governments regularly target and vilify weak groups within societies.

Structural unemployment, for example, is an economic too, yet governments are quick to demonize those they force out of the workforce. They are easy targets and the public laps it up.

The latest one, with the WoT, is legitimized racism and religious prejudice. As one top English cop complained, we now have laws which make it a crime to 'fly while Asian.' An to the British Asia takes in everything from just North of Australia across to the Mediterranean Levant.

Airline passenger profiling is racism, something that is otherwise proscibed under most of our laws, but it is racism by stealth.

For Muslim Asians all bets are off when it comes to political correctness, it is official vilification.

PC also provides cover from real and deserved criticism. Anyone who dared to question Israel's recent little adventure was quickly proclaimed to be anti-semitic.

Even though I did not attack Jews, did not attack the right for Israel to exist, in fact criticized perceived failures in Israels leadership I was branded anti-semitic.

They are easy labels and exactly the nonsense PC was supposed to curtail. Instead PC makes them weapons to attack with.

But still, anyone who is interested, and reads what I really have to say, knows where I am coming from. I'm not hiding behind anything.

Know the enemy

You can stop people wearing white sheets and pointy hats, but it is harder change the poison that infects their sick minds. Using them as an example, I would feel a lot safer if I could see who they were, pick them by their hateful costume.

Society and governments will continue to hold and support views which the PC doctrine seeks to deny. Better we see and hear clearly, know what people really think rather than constantly be ambushed with illogical hate under the guise of sanitized language.

Just ask the gays who have had very little protection from law or concepts of PC. They adopted the very terms of vilification and threw it back at their attackers. It is those attackers, stripped of their epithets, who most often look the fools now.

The fact is, revealed and challenged, haters can rarely ever ascribe any real and logical basis for their warped beliefs. Saying that all Muslims are terrorists is a plain nonsense, but wild generalization is the cousin of PC when it comes to justifying the unjustifiable.

I realize that anti-PC arguments are conservative territory, but suggest so-called liberals cannot call for greater transparency in the community then justify driving bad attitudes underground. Far better that we have full transparency - don't ban the bigots reveal them to the world.