Tag Archives: Political Correctness

Where winners lose and losers win

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No I’m not talking about Communist Empire (though there are glaring similarities.) I’m talking about the Gloucester Dragons Recreational Soccer League in Ottawa, Canada! The thriving soccer league, which has 3,000 registrants ranging from age 4 to 18 has implemented a new rule where if a team wins by 5 goals or more, they automatically lose by default.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Kevin Cappon said he first heard about the rule on May 20 — right after he had scored his team’s last allowable goal. His team then tossed the ball around for fear of losing the game.

He said if anything, the league’s new rule will coddle sore losers.

“They should be saying anything is possible. If we can get five goals really fast, well, so can the other team,” said Kevin, 17, who has played in the league for five years. “People grow in adversity, they don’t really get worse…. I think you’ll see more leadership skills being used if a losing team tries to recuperate than if they never got into that situation at all.”

According to Kevin’s father, Bruce:

“Everybody wants a close game, nobody wants blowouts, but we don’t want to go by those farcical rules that they come up with. Heaven forbid when these kids get into the real world. They won’t be prepared to deal with the competition out there.”

Even more amusingly, coaches are encouraged to give their weaker players better positions and to tell their stronger players to kick with their weaker foot to ensure a more “fair” game. Personally, I could have used such accommodations when I was younger to make sure I’d lose by less. However, as Bruce Cappon said, losing is a part of life. And this new form of political correctness where ‘incompetence’ is a protected group of people that needs to be accommodated only further pushes people away from reality.

The organization’s director, Sean Cale is putting up a bit of a hissy fit now, saying “The registration fee, regardless of the sport, does not give a parent the right to insult or belittle the organization, it gives you a uniform, it gives you a team.”

Strictly Right episode 27

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On this week’s Strictly Right, Ari and Andrew introduce the White House edition of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” the soon-to-be mega-mosque in New York City, Obama’s Foreign Policy, Political Correctness run amuck, and a particularly deadly “It Must Be a Liberal.”

You can listen to this episode online here or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

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Is being Catholic a crime?

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According to Fieldstone Secondary School in Rockland County, New York, it is.

Ninth-grader Jason Laguna, a former altar-boy, was suspended for daring to show the Rosary that he wears to school on a regular basis, generally under his clothes. He said that he received it as a gift and liked it so much that he wears it under his shirt, presumably to remind him throughout the day of his faith. Sounds reasonable right? Apparently not to his teacher who ordered him to put it away (despite the bell having rung and him being on his way out the door) and to the principal who upheld the teacher’s ruling.

The reason?

Beads are generally indicative of being in a gang. And moreover, wearing of the Rosary “endanger[s] the safety, health, morals or welfare of himself or others.”

Laguna, a straight-A’s student who is also a member of student government is nevertheless seeking assistance with his mother from the ACLU who has yet to comment. The superintendent put the suspension on hold pending an investigation. It’s unclear at this time if the school district is investigating whether or not the Roman Catholic Church is, in fact, a gang or something else.

Ugh.

H/T to Hot Air.

California students sent home for being patriotic

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From FOX News:

Administrators at a California high school sent five students home on Wednesday after they refused to remove their American flag T-shirts and bandannas — garments the school officials deemed “incendiary” on Cinco de Mayo.

The five teens were sitting at a table outside Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., on Wednesday morning when Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez asked two of them to remove their American flag bandannas, the Morgan Hill Times reported. The boys told the newspaper they complied, but were asked to accompany Rodriguez to the principal’s office.

The five students [...] were then told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be sent home, though it would not be considered a suspension. Rodriguez told the students he did not want any fights to break out between Mexican-American students celebrating their heritage and those wearing American flags.

The article also said that the kids were told they could wear their American flag t-shirts and bandannas any other day of the year, just not on a day that Mexicans are wanting to celebrate their heritage. The fact that the principal is of Hispanic descent makes this story a little more amusing as it’s generally white liberals who insist on injecting political correctness into any known crevice of the universe. However, how can you set a different standards for what’s allowed one day than you do for 364 other days?

If someone wants to go to school on the Fourth of July wearing a Saudi Flag wrapped around them, that’s absolutely fine (though I probably wouldn’t let them near the AV room or the Chemistry lab.) If someone wants to celebrate the Fourth of July by singing Rule Brittania and waving a Union Jack around, that’s completely their choice as all. The premise of this decision made by the school is that there is something about Mexican values and American values that are mutually exclusive. If that premise existed, there would be 100+ Mexicans at that school learning about American history and American values on a day-to-day basis.

Being patriotic is not offensive, so get stuffed Miguel.

Political correctness gone too far (again)

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Yesterday I blogged about a new law in Iran forbidding women from showing any evidence of a tan. A new law in Italy, however, seems slightly more amusing and ridiculously more disturbing. I’ve said for quite some time that political correctness is a cancer. One of the tenets of cancer is that it doesn’t die off naturally, and it spreads. Far.

When adopting children now, would-be parents in Italy are guilty of an indictable offense if they attempt to consider race in any way in their selection. Let’s get the obvious point out of the way first, which is that this is yet another race-centered policy by a Leftist that serves not to help any given race, but rather marginalize them and patronize them to the point where there is practically an admission that black children are unwanted and need to be forced onto potential parents.

Beyond that, it would seem that in his haste to shout out in a truly Ron Paul fashion “constitution! constitution!” (or I suppose “constitutionni! constitutionni!”) and make it an international rights issue, activist Marco Griffini didn’t think of the potential repurcussions that this has for the children. I’m not for a moment suggesting that white parents cannot raise black children, nor that black parents couldn’t raise a white child. However, there is a visible disconnect when Mario and Lucia Lucetti become the parents to Jamal. Several studies have shown that children raised in interracial homes do face additional challenges and issues in childhood and adolescence that simply aren’t issues in those homes where all are of the same race. Again, this is not to shoot down the concept of multiracial familes. However, some parents may not be equipped to handle these issues of race above the normal trials of parenthood.

As is becoming a standard occurence in North America, this is government telling parents whats best for their family. If individual adoption agencies want to embrace this policy, then power to them. However, the the last thing the government should be doing is forcing anti-choice mandates onto families. Sex education, food choices, advertising laws, nationalized daycare (Canada,) etc. All are examples of the government trying to raise children, as if they can do it better than the parents who conceived them.

Let’s face it, does anyone want Eric Massa or Barney Frank raising their children?

Strictly Right Episode 17

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In the latest installment of Strictly Right hosts Andrew and Ari examine liberal lies about the Tea Party movement, the left’s obsession with race, Obama’s appeasement of Islam both at home and abroad, the hit segment ‘It Must Be a Liberal’ and more!

You can listen online here or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

Political correctness kills again

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Political correctness seems to be an emerging theme on Strictly Right, ravaging the halls of schools, workplaces and blogs all around the world. It’s unfortunate that this time, political correctness led a British medical technician to kill himself.

A medical technician killed himself after being suspended from work after someone complained that he made a politically-incorrect joke about a black friend.

Roy Amor, 61, who was devastated at the prospect of losing his job making prosthetics, shot himself in the head outside his house.

He was facing a disciplinary investigation after suggesting to the black colleague that he ‘better hide’ when they noticed immigration officers outside their clinic.

It is understood that the man was a close friend of Mr Amor and was not offended. However, it was overheard by someone else who lodged a formal complaint.

This whole ‘PC’ trend has not only made humor a lot more challenging, but it has led to the destruction of peoples’ lives and livelihoods. In this case, that life can never be brought back.

I’ll be the first to admit that Mr. Amor likely had some psychological issues before this whole thing happened, but it would be stupid to ignore the fact that this man who everyone seemed to love (except an ignorant white liberal lacking a sense of humor) was pushed over the edge directly because of the fear that his colleagues may think he’s a racist, and the fear that his job may be in jeopardy because of a [pretty funny] joke to a friend.

My sincerest prayers go out to Mr. Amor and his family. I hope all of the censors on the left will ask themselves the question: which is worse, a harmless joke enjoyed by those involved, or the death of an innocent, kind family-man?

H/T to Five Feet of Fury.

Teacher of the year award?

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Heh.

Apparently we have another example of teachers being forced to worry about political correctness as opposed to truth and facts.

A Montgomery County teacher who told a high school sophomore last week that she was dressed like a prostitute has apologized to the student and her mother, the mother said Tuesday.

Jam Donaldson at Conversate is Not a Word pretty much summed up my thoughts:

I personally want to thank this teacher for having the guts to say what so many teachers and school administrators are afraid to say.

Whatever happened to enforcing standards in our schools? I remember our principal would get on us if our jeans were a little too tight. At some point, it seems the school community just gave up:

You want to wear a thong hanging out of your jeans, you want to have your boobies falling out, your ass cheeks popping out of your low-riders, no problem.

Teachers used to be able to hit their students, discipline, yell, comment, and anything else that made them better individuals. Now, teachers in most places aren’t even allowed to fail a student because, after all, they tried their hardest (despite how this is generally untrue.) Sex education is now 12 steps to becoming a slut and/or a homosexual. World religions now teaches students why they should pray to Mecca and shun God. And, social sciences teaches girls that years of feminism existed to give them the right to get knocked up and now, dress like a hooker.

I hope that this incident doesn’t turn other teachers off from being honest.