Is the tide finally turning against those that have exploited race and gender sensitivities to destroy their political enemies? Are the thought police seeing the tables turned on them? I hope so.
For decades we have witnessed the character assassination of public figures that have made insensitive remarks about people in protected classes. The list of the assassinated is endless. It is a familiar ritual. Some white guy or occasionally a white woman either makes a comment about a minority person or someone finds a comment they made in their past and all hell breaks loose in the media. The left pounces. They exploit their friends in the media to pile on and demand an apology or a resignation. They boycott the services or the advertisers of the target. They eventually get their pound of flesh, which is often money.
This is immoral. People should not be punished for what they think or say. They should be punished for what they do.
The interesting aspect of this is that it is virtually always a conservative that is the one being assassinated and a liberal or a series of liberal groups doing the assassination. This is a calculated political strategy.
There are new signs that Americans may have finally had enough of this sordid ritual. The tactic has been exposed for what it is, bullying. Liberals and those in protected classes are not immune from acting as bullies just because they may have been hurt in the past or because they see themselves as representing aggrieved peoples. A bully is a bully.
Recently, two Progressive television personalities have been called on the carpet for making their own insensitive remarks. One of them, Martin Bashir of MSNBC, was eventually forced to resign for saying something that people believed was nasty about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Governor Palin has heretofore been open season for the left's harassment. Yesterday, another MSNBC host was forced to apologize to Mitt Romney's family for allowing racially-charged comments on her show and laughing along. Finally, Phil Robertson of the Duck Dynasty show, a conservative Christian, was fired and then reinstated by the A&E Network after he made remarks that some people believed were insensitive to gays. That was a shocking development because it signified that conservatives may finally be awakening to the community organizing tactics that have formerly been the purview of the left.
Is the tide turning? I hope so because this assassination trend has been a sad chapter in American history. It is anti-community. It interferes with the opportunity for authentic conversation. It harms race and gender relations.
Let's hope 2014 is the year that political correctness and the associated character assassination ends and honest conversation begins. Happy New Year.
