The PC Police is Knocking

 (Author's note: This piece was originally written as an editorial for Three Fingers of Politics.com)

The Editor of this website and I used to battle political correctness during the pinnacle of our educational careers. When we weren’t chugging  beers (or Jim Beam Bourbon), we were challenging the stereotypical New England leftists that called themselves our professors and doctors.

To give you some perspective, phrases and buzzwords like social justice, multiculturalism, and oppression (a personal favorite of my college advisor who was in the minority) were the messages behind most of the classes we took in college. We we’re not idiots. In fact, much to the dismay of our instructors, we refused to soak up their liberal agendas, unlike most of our friends.
Unfortunately, for all of the times we went knuckle to knuckle with our professors over these very issues, it seems as though the situation is not getting any better. Specifically speaking, the firing of Juan Williams has given me little hope for the future of our nation. A liberal commentator for NPR the last eleven years, Williams was fired recently for comments he made on The O’Reilly Factor this past Monday:

“I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country,” Williams said. “But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they’re identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

Fired? Fired for what? Speaking his mind, speaking the truth? Mr. Williams was not giving his opinion but merely stating a sentiment most Americans share. Would he have been fired if he lied and said he wasn’t afraid? Politically correct America got wind of the situation and now one man is being crucified for it.

Let’s take a look at this for a minute and allow me to make a comparison. A town north of me in New Hampshire called Laconia hosts a “Bike Week” every year. This event is notoriously known for hosting members of Hell’s Angels who drink excessively, get into bar fights, and otherwise wreak havoc in the small city for seven days. Now if I were eating in a restaurant and suddenly a pack of bikers rode up and entered the same place wearing biker “garb”, would I be a bigot if I felt afraid upon them entering? Does the stigma and history behind Hell’s Angels give me the right to fear these men? The answer is yes. Does the fact that Muslims attacked us on 9/11 give me the right to fear them if I see them waiting to get on the same plane as me? Yes.

It is such a shame that political correctness has blinded not only many Americans but now more than ever mainstream media. Until we start combating political correctness in our own country we may never win the actual wars being fought overseas.