Thursday, February 24, 2011

Apparently, edginess has its limits


When it's something you want to hear, it's "edgy."

When it's something you don't, it's offensive and violates some flavor or another of unspecified "values."

In New York, this pro-life billboard highlighting the inconvenient statistic that 59.8 percent of pregnancies among non-Hispanic black women there end in abortion is offensive.

“The ad violates the values of New Yorkers and is grossly offensive to women and minorities,”the city's public advocate, Bill de Blasio, tells The New York Times. That's because, in the big city, telling minorities that we're eradicating most of them before they can emerge from the womb to become a "social problem" for white people is much more "offensive" than the actual eradication of most minorities before they can pop out of Mama's belly and start troubling Caucasian advocates of tolerance and open-mindedness.


FOR INSTANCE, take Times judicial reporter Linda Greenhouse (please), who's so tolerant of pro-lifers -- particularly Puerto Rican, Democratic pro-life officeholders -- that she lets no stereotype go unmolested in the push for better demonization.

You want to know the one instance when it's permissible to call a Latino Democratic pol "nutty" in New York City? This is it. And a state senator, no less.

If you ask me, the first sign a nation's on the road to oblivion is when it's more offensive to bemoan the extermination of 59.8 percent of a city's African-American children than it is to exterminate them in the first place. Think of it this way . . . we fought a bloody civil war a century and a half ago for this?

At least Jefferson Davis would have had enough sense to look at the LifeAlways billboard, sadly shake his head, then bemoan the senseless loss of perfectly good free labor. Which says a lot about us today, doesn't it?

2 comments:

(c)2014 Richard L. Kent, Esq. (MichiganSilverback at gmail dot com) said...

Let us look at the bright side.

We're winning.

http://www.michigansilverback.com/2011/02/frances-kissling-blinks.html

(If I may flog my blog a bit... :0))

Also, you may find reading this book EXTREMELY interesting.... as the parallels are astonishing.

http://www.amazon.com/Arguing-about-Slavery-Quincy-Congress/dp/0679768440/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298632443&sr=8-1

(c)2014 Richard L. Kent, Esq. (MichiganSilverback at gmail dot com) said...

PS. Looks like they took it down.

http://www.lifenews.com/2011/02/25/black-pro-life-advocates-upset-abortion-billboard-axed-in-nyc/