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Im a spiritual man....Society is quick not to offend anyone except Christians....Jews, Gays, Muslims, don't even dare speak out against them if you want to keep your job and privacy....Renata wrote:I'm not the religious type but ever notice how Society is quick not to offend anyone, except God? So much political correctness but yet sin everywhere.
Have you also noticed the manipulative language(from the left) also used.They call people who are against illegal immigration:"Anti-Immigrants".The U.S. takes in 1.2 million legal immigrants a year yet the left wants to label all Americans as "Anti-Immigration".The wrote:Im a spiritual man....Society is quick not to offend anyone except Christians....Jews, Gays, Muslims, don't even dare speak out against them if you want to keep your job and privacy....Renata wrote:I'm not the religious type but ever notice how Society is quick not to offend anyone, except God? So much political correctness but yet sin everywhere.
Also ever notice the changing of the language.....What used to be called illegal immigrants are now undocumented migrants? WHAT!?!?!?
A TV news reporter who blamed "anti-cop mentality" on "young black men growing up without fathers" in a shocking on-air report has reportedly been suspended.
Jersey City police officer Melvin Santiago was shot and killed responding to an armed robbery. Jersey City Police Jersey City police officer Melvin Santiago was shot and killed responding to an armed robbery.
The comments made by News 12 reporter Sean Bergin followed Sunday's tragic shooting death of New Jersey police officer, Melvin Santiago. The suspected cop killer was described as boasting that he was "going to be famous" moments after the killing.
"We were besieged, flooded with calls from police officers furious that we would give coverage to the life of a cop killer," said Bergin at the start of his surprise editorial.
His retort to the outrage, however, was to blame it on the suspect's race.
"The underlying cause for all of this, of course: young black men growing up without fathers. Unfortunately, no one in the news media has the courage to touch that subject," he said.
THE NEWS JERSEY REPORTER WHO SPARKED A MEDIA FIRESTORM WHEN HE BLAMED ABSENT FATHERS FOR AN "ANTI COP MENTALITY AMONG BLACKS HAS QUIT THE STATION!The wrote:
THE STATION IS THINKING ABOUT FIRING THIS MAN FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK CRIME IN THE INNER CITY!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1868069
HERES THE KICKER THOUGH!!"There's no doubt that I went off the reservation," Sean Bergin told Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, using an idiom many Native Americans consider derogatory. "I made a couple of rogue remarks at the end. I knew what I was doing."
News 12 of New Jersey suspended Bergin after he made the controversial comments about African-American homes while covering the shooting death of 23-year-old Jersey City Police Officer Melvin Santiago for voicing his opinion rather than staying objective.
Soon after, he quit.
But some might be surprised the ousted journalist would use a saying like "off the reservation" while trying to clear up accusations of racism.
That expression grew out of a sad chapter in our nation's history when the U.S. government confined Native Americans to reservations and harshly limited their freedoms. In fact, Native Americans could have faced harsh punishments — or even death — for leaving reservations.
Nowadays, people use "off the reservation" to convey going beyond the boundaries set by one's leader or group, often without thinking about its origin.
"The issue with 'off the reservation' and similar phrases is that these things are said without any thought. They become a part of the common vernacular," Andrew Bentley wrote in a blog for the nonprofit National Relief Charities back in 2012. He finds the term offensive and is troubled by the way some use it so glibly.
Others think sensitivity to expressions like “off the reservation’ is just another example of the "PC police" running wild.
Coincidentally enough, the article above just illustrated one of my all-time worst pet peeves about PC: the deliberate, and absolutely Orwellian IMO, replacement of the word "problem" with "issue", and the subsequent chucking of "problem" down the ol' memory-hole."The issue with 'off the reservation' and similar phrases is that" blah blah blah