Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Political Correctness Means Being Denied the Pleasure of Expressing Racist Thoughts

According to  Jonathan Zimmerman's op ed on "Teaching across our differences," some people think (I use that word loosely) that political correctness denies them free-rein to racist expressions, infringing upon their unalienable right to tweet hate.

Last week a teacher , Mary Durstein, was placed on paid leave for racist and anti-Muslim tweets.

This is what she tweeted:

"No more political correctness after 1/20 can't wait finally liberated."  

She also responded to a tweet calling  Obama a "Muslim douchebag."  She added,  "Exactly."  
Then she re-tweeted Ann Coulter's post demanding the deportation of Muslims.

A few weeks earlier, an Arkansas science teacher posted remarks calling Pressident Obama a "spider monkey" and Michelle Obama "America's First Chimp." 

Is this what the people in the red states call freedom of expression?  

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