The Freedom Bulletin

Jan Moir at the Daily Mail wrote a column the other day devoted to bashing French people because of the (alleged) actions of Gerard Depardieu and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

She writes, “If someone is going to urinate like a horse in the aisle of a packed international flight taxiing along a runway, then that someone is going to be a Frenchman. You could bet your last croissant on it. No doubt about it…A Frenchman every time.” And, she adds, “any Frenchman worth his sel de mer always feels that the rules do not apply to him.”

Even if you ignored the fact that Depardieu didn’t really have a choice about what he did if he had to go to the bathroom and the plane crew wouldn’t let him into the bathroom or off of the plane, and the fact that Strauss-Kahn is looking more and more likely to be innocent of what he is charged with, it is ridiculous to condemn an entire nationality because of two people. If someone wrote something like this about Hispanics or African-Americans, for example, there would be a public uproar and they would be fired. In fact, that is essentially what happened to radio host Jay Severin, for example, when he called Mexicans “primitives” and “criminaliens.” Why is it considered OK for Moir to write what she wrote about French people?

On the subject of DSK, he’s awaiting a hearing tomorrow where the District Attorney’s office is looking increasingly likely to move to dismiss the charges against him. Prosecutors will meet with his accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, today, and her lawyer is planning to ask the judge to disqualify D.A. Cyrus Vance from the case. This comes after allegations that, contrary to earlier claims that Strauss-Kahn’s friends were looking to pay off Diallo’s relatives to make the case go away, her lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, actually approached the defense team, offering for her to stop cooperating with prosecutors in the criminal case in exchange for money. DSK and his lawyers apparently refused that offer. I would love to see the reaction of Moir and other French-bashing people if DSK is freed once and for all.

An elementary school in California has forbidden kindergarteners from dressing up as pilgrims and Indians this Thanksgiving. According to some parents, wearing headdresses and pilgrim hats is “demeaning” and “a racist stereotype.”

I can think of a lot of things that are demeaning, and wearing pilgrim and Indian outfits isn’t one of them. Headdresses, beads, and vests are a simplified way of representing typical Native American clothing, just as pilgrim hats and collars are a simplified way of representing what the pilgrims wore. There’s nothing bad about wearing a headdress, so how is it insulting to Native Americans for kids to wear headdresses? What is demeaning about acting out a historical event?

Political correctness has gotten way out of hand. Things that should be simple and fun are forced to become bland, meaningless, and pointless.

Have a great Thanksgiving, and don’t let the PC police ruin it!