Political correctness, or moral cowardice?

The political left has been waging a war against real freedom of speech for decades. They like to claim that they advocate freedom of speech in all its forms, and yet whenever someone says something they don't like, they fall all over themselves to suppress it and discredit it. One of their favorite tactics is the concept of political correctness, the idea that anything distasteful or potentially inflammatory should be sugar-coated or suppressed altogether in order to avoid offending the delicate sensitivities of moral cowards. They refuse to use the term "illegal aliens" for fear of upsetting criminals that are invading this country by the millions. They cringe at the term "Islamo-fascist" because they don't want to provoke the nice, peace-loving Muslims into even more acts of heinous violence. As if they need provoking.

A recent example of the leftist assault on freedom of speech is the campaign to get the Bible classified as hate speech. Canada's leftists have already succeeded in making it a crime for Christian clergy to tell their congregations that homosexual behavior is a sin. Several Canadian pastors have been arrested and jailed for daring to say it anyway. This same law prevents people from saying anything derogatory about Islam in public. At least one Canadian man has been arrested and convicted on "hate speech" charges for daring to say that Muslims posed a threat to Canada. Sweden has similar laws, and several people have been arrested and convicted. And yet, both countries, and the United States, have countless groups and publications dedicated to the slandering and vilification of Christianity.

I also find it perplexing that the Koran has not been classified as hate speech, considering the fact that it details the graphically violent and gruesome punishments Muslims should impose on homosexuals. The Bible does indeed classify homosexual behavior, not homosexual inclination, as a sin, but makes no recommendations of any punishments for it. It also classifies petty theft as a sin, but doesn't say people who shoplift should have their hands chopped off. That's because Christianity recognizes that there are degrees of sin. Homosexual behavior is NOT an unforgivable sin by Christian standards (real Christian standards, not the standards of that psycho and his ilk at the Westboro Baptist Church), it does not irrevocably damn someone, and it does not make someone a bad person. But it is something to be discouraged.

A new trend is developing out of the moral cowardice of political correctness. The thugs of the world are now using the guise of political correctness to literally stifle the process of trying to punish nations guilty of human rights violations. The U.N. has voted to discourage the condemnation and sanctioning of states for human rights violations. Here's an excerpt from an article in the International Herald Tribune:

Its key provision "stresses the need to avoid politically motivated and biased country-specific resolutions on the situation of human rights, confrontational approaches, exploitation of human rights for political purposes, selective targeting of individual countries for extraneous considerations and double standards in the work of the United Nations on human rights issues."

And surprise, surprise! It was drafted by Belarus and Uzbekistan, two countries accused of horrible human rights violations. No doubt it will also get support from Sudan and Iran. And to reiterate my comments on a great post about this article on this other wonderful conservative blog, damn right it's biased and country-specific! You don't see Scotland beheading people, you don't see Japan executing Christians. You don't see Israel committing genocide against blacks. What, if we accuse one country, we have to accuse them all? The U.N. is a corrupt and evil organization. Don't think for a minute that they're just cowards, giving in to the demands of violent thugs. They ARE the violent thugs! They approve of the human rights violations, and they're undoubtedly funneling massive amounts of OUR money to our enemies. We should stop funding them, they get the vast majority of their money from the U.S. Why, so they can call us racist imperialists and declare sanctions against our allies?

Because that's the only thing the U.N. seems capable of doing, declaring sanctions against Israel for non-existent human rights violations, while conveniently ignoring the REAL violations being committed in places like North Korea. And they get away with it, relying on the moral cowardice of the politically correct leftists. The left seems to think that calling real evil what it is counts as a much bigger sin that actually committing the evil. Why, because we might offend the psychopaths? I guarantee, if they have the intestinal fortitude to burn people alive because of the color of their skin, they can handle a little criticism without breaking down into tears.

Political correctness is the result of people who think that emotional discomfort should be avoided at any cost. These are the people that believe child rapists deserve compassion and understanding, that suicide bombing is a perfectly understandable reaction to an offensive cartoon, that it's not the serial murderers fault because he was abused as a child. These are the people who want to put our own soldiers on death row for DOING THEIR JOB! And doing it damn well, I might add. Political correctness is moral cowardice, and it's the perfect front for the evil people of the world to get away with more evil. For a great blog dedicated to the exposure of political correctness at its worst, please go here.

As a side note, I'd like to give some credit to the guy that writes the other conservative blog that I mentioned earlier. He happens to be a gay conservative, and while I may disagree with his position on gay marriage, I salute his patriotism and I applaud his courage in fighting the good fight and standing up to the left, which probably sees him as a "traitor to the cause", in more ways than one. If he ever reads this, I want him to know how much I admire him.