Translating teabonics

"I'm not politically correct" means I reserve the right to be an asshole anytime, anywhere.

But he doesn't say n*****!

Race-baiting is Rush Limbaugh's job. It's what he means when he proudly crows that he's not politically correct.

He knows it, his audience knows it, I know it. Only the big media are so conservatively correct that they fail to notice that the man is a professional bigot.

(h/t Atrios)

Update (8/14): Opening a new front in racist denialism, "Dr." Laura laces her show with "n*****, n*****, n*****." But she's not a racist, oh no, she's just quoting n--, I mean, black people back to themselves.

Here's a bright line test: If you immediately go on the attack when someone mentions racism, you're most likely a racist. If you think black hypersensitivity is the big problem, you're so self-centered and impervious to everyone else's reality that you'll be in denial of your own racism forever. You probably lack enough of the empathy, which you were supposed to have learned in kindergarten, to apply the golden rule.

Political correctness run amok

Liberty [sic] University [sic] revokes the charter of their chapter of the College Democrats:

Maria Childress, the staff adviser to the club, told the paper the school — which opposes abortion rights and gay marriage — had issues with the Democratic Party platform.

Childress says she was told by Mark Hine, the vice president of student affairs, that "'You can't be a Democrat and be a Christian and be a university representative.'"

Never mind that admitting to being a Democrat at LU is like being a black Mormon or a gay Republican, this is the most intrusive kind of political correctness. It will be fun to hear all the usual decriers of PC condemn LU for this. As if.

The silence I expect from, say, David Horowitz, would prove once and for all that the problem the right has with political correctness is not the concept but whose political correctness gets enforced. If the academy would only enforce their political correctness, they'd be thrilled.

But back to LU: Democrats everywhere should take this charter revocation as a point of pride.

Hypersensitivity

Step back from this:

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized Friday for a department assessment that suggested returning combat veterans could be recruited by right-wing extremist groups.

I read it this way:

(Blameless) Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized Friday for a department assessment that suggested (the undeniable fact that) returning combat veterans could be recruited by right-wing extremist groups.

When our discourse is debased by the political requirement to pretend that true facts are false - even to mollycoddle an otherwise deserving group - it's difficult to have the sort of honest, no-bullshit discussion that is required for good government.

It's political correctness run amok.

Case of missing perspective

OK, I'm a New England Patriots fan. Yes, I think they could go undefeated and win the Super Bowl. But I have no desire to replace Yankees fans from the 1990s. So, I'm obliged to slam the idiots who wrote the first and the last of these letters.

Both call this objection to running up the score "politically correct". Seriously. It's elementary good sportsmanship not to run up the score. These are the kind of people who can see the offenses of their opponents but not of their team. It would not surprise me to find out that they also believe torture's fine so long as we're the people doing it but is outrageous from anyone else.

Good sportmanship is PC. OK, we liberals who get blamed for PC will take this one.