“Can’t You See How Insulting This Is?”
17th January 2012
Freeberg brings up some inconvenient truth.
This blog, which nobody reads anyway, has frequently made the point about GoodPerson Fever; we’ve got all these ninnies just like Juan Williams, running around everywhere, and even worse still they are disproportionately represented in the hallways of power. Every decision made has to be absolutely non-offensive, and that includes the decisions of others, about matters well outside of their purview, and so they end up excoriating strangers for violating the Could Be Construed As standard. In other words, they get offended on behalf of other people, people who exist only in theory and might very well not exist at all in reality.
It’s all an outgrowth of the ‘progressive’ compulsion (which appears to be congenital) to stick their noses into other people’s business given the slightest excuse — or even no excuse at all.