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IN A CRISIS
SITUATION, CAN YOU AFFORD TO LIVE IN TWO WORLDS?
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Fox Cable tested a courthouse which has "beefed
up" security with lots of new machines and lots
more workers since September 11. Fox sent people
through its checkpoints with weapons to see if all
that new security would catch them.
All that security did not one bit of good.
Fox videotaped while hammers, knives and other
weapons were brought through five different checkpoints.
Not one single person that Fox sent through was
stopped.
So they decided to show the videotape of all this
to the security chief in the courthouse. Then they
decided instead to bring the weapons into his office.
So in they came with a huge bag of deadly weapons.
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What happened in the above incident was this:
Fox sent through well-dressed American white people
with those suitcases full of weapons. The guards,
almost every one of whom was black, did not bother
to check them.
Jesse Jackson said, "I hate to admit it, but when
I hear footsteps behind me on a dark street, I am
relieved if I turn around and see it's a white man."
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the real
world works. Well-dressed white people who look
all right do not get checked nearly as much. That
is not Evil. That is simply good sense.
The fact is that in the real world, you use your
eyes and your experience. In other words, out here
in reality, prejudice rules. It keeps us alive.
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WHAT
HAPPENED IN THE POLITICALLY CORRECT TWILIGHT ZONE
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Years ago there was a television show instructing people
on how to avoid being a crime victim. Most of it was common
sense advice, like having your keys in your hand when
you approach your car alone, walking where there is light,
and so forth.
In other words, it was all simple, real-world stuff.
Then came the Twilight Zone of Political Correctness.
They asked if you should get on an elevator at night that
is full of "minorities."
No problem, said the film. People of every race and color
and creed commit crimes, so you are just as safe in an
elevator full of black folks or Puerto Ricans as with
well-dressed white Americans.
No one who was that stupid would survive in the real
world. But that is the logic on which our whole society
is built. The world of liberalism and Political Correctness
is never real, it never works, but we try to build a society
on it.
So in the Politically Correct Bizarro World, those well-dressed
whites from Fox who looked like they belonged should have
been checked just as closely as any red-eyed Arab.
We all know that will never happen in a sane world. But
we also insist that Our Great Principle of Equality says
you have to strip-search grandma. See WOL Worldview for
December 29, 2001 - YOU'VE EITHER
GOT TO DISCRIMINATE OR STRIP-SEARCH GRANDMA.
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HOW
DO WE SQUARE OUR AMERICAN IDEALS WITH REALITY?
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We don't.
If you have adopted some dumbass insanity and called
it an "ideal," you dump it.
But when somebody says "Race doesn't matter" or "All
men are created equal," you are supposed to say, "Yes,
Master" and lynch anybody who objects. These are "ideals"
to which reality and even survival must yield.
Maybe real crises will finally make us face the fact
that this is insane. If it doesn't, there is no limit
to how much we will have to pay for this insanity.
If our so-called Ideals prohibit rational discrimination,
it is time to toss them out.
For in the real world, as Robert Heinlein pointed out:
"The penalty for stupidity has always been death."
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