Dear Friends:
Here's another example of the P.C. crowd not only going to extremes...... but doing so in a totally misplaced, mistaken and unwarranted fashion fueled by ignorance and disregard for the facts.
BUT: For Baltimore's Little Italy, the inner-city Italian neighbourhood whose second- and third-generation immigrants paid to erect the statue 36 years ago, it was just mean and contemptuous. All they wanted to do was put up a statue of a famous Italian, and they knew Christopher Columbus was the only one most of their fellow Americans would recognize.
Unfortunately, most of these politically correct zealots operate on their gut feelings rather than any sort of reasoned behaviour..... and because of this, we will continue to see stupid acts committed by stupid people.
The way I see it anyway! (From my blog: "Allan's Perspective!")
Here's another example of the P.C. crowd not only going to extremes...... but doing so in a totally misplaced, mistaken and unwarranted fashion fueled by ignorance and disregard for the facts.
Last Sunday in the city of Baltimore, they tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the harbour. According to the Baltimore Sun, protesters who yanked it down with ropes were dedicated to removing statues “honouring white supremacists, owners of enslaved people, perpetrators of genocide and colonizers.”Now, here's the scoop folks, the Europeans weren't white supremacists, they weren't slave owners, they weren't really colonizers that early in the game, and the genocide they did inflict on the native population was totally a case of bad luck because Indians didn't have a natural immunity to European diseases like chickenpox, measles or smallpox!
BUT: For Baltimore's Little Italy, the inner-city Italian neighbourhood whose second- and third-generation immigrants paid to erect the statue 36 years ago, it was just mean and contemptuous. All they wanted to do was put up a statue of a famous Italian, and they knew Christopher Columbus was the only one most of their fellow Americans would recognize.
Unfortunately, most of these politically correct zealots operate on their gut feelings rather than any sort of reasoned behaviour..... and because of this, we will continue to see stupid acts committed by stupid people.
The way I see it anyway! (From my blog: "Allan's Perspective!")
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