Stigma
Herald of the Judgement
Interesting perspective:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/political_correctness_more_deadly_than_isis.html
Political Correctness More Deadly than ISIS
Which is a bigger threat to America? Terrorists or political correctness? Seems like an easy answer. PC is just an idea, whereas terrorists shoot people and blow things up. But which is easier to stop or contain?I contend that if the PC movement went away, America would have a much easier time fighting terrorism. Meaning that political correctness will be our undoing, despite the best efforts of intelligence, law enforcement, and the military.
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In the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting, it was perfectly fine to label the shooter a “Christian terrorist” despite a neighbor saying he’d never heard the shooter talk about religion. If it turns out that Robert Dear carried out the shootings in the name of Christ, then call him a Christian terrorist. We know the female San Bernardino shooter pledged support to ISIS, so it would be fair to call her an Islamic terrorist.
Yet we can’t. Neither could President Obama in his Sunday night oval office address. He did say the shooters were, “embracing a perverted interpretation of Islam.” Only 70 percent of U.S. Muslims have a very unfavorable view of al Qaeda, meaning that close to a third may actually accept this “perverted interpretation.”
Major Nidal Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar” before he opened fire killing 13 people at Fort Hood. Yet the U.S. government called this “workplace violence.” Not Islamic terrorism, the phrase which is not politically correct.
So why not call it what it is? If it’s Christian terror, so be it. But same with Islamic terror. Instead those who describe it accurately are demonized.
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The result is predictable. A neighbor of the San Bernardino killers didn’t report suspicious activity “for fear of being called racist.”
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If citizens are vigilant, many terror plots will be noticed and disrupted. But residents must feel free to speak up, even if their suspicions turn out to be wrong. Even if they are wrong more than right, lives will be saved and we will have a chance at stopping San Bernardino-like plots. But if citizens are afraid to speak up due to political correctness, we all lose as law enforcement can’t do it alone.