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You have finally landed on the one page on this entire site (and on the entire internet for that matter) that is purely without bullshit... my soapbox page. There are a lot of times during our show that, whether it's because of time constraints and other obligations, I don't always get to address some issues that I feel don't get the attention they deserve. There are even more times when I just don't feel like waiting until the show the next day to get some things off my chest. Thus, I have started the "Rob's Soapbox" page. If you have clicked on this page looking for someone to coddle your fragile sense of self-esteem, or tell you what you want to hear or to reinforce your outdated world view, then exit this page right now and go somewhere else. If you are in search of the last forum for reason and common sense left in the world, then sit back, relax, and enjoy. I make only one promise with this soapbox page... if you read long enough and often enough, you will eventually be offended. So here's my latest soapbox. Listen up, 'cause you just might learn something... |
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Monday, April 14th, 2008 THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS OF ABORTING RETARDS The problems with political correctness have always been many. For starters, the entire foundation of the movement is based in dishonesty and emotion, as opposed to reality and logic. The premise of political correctness, put simply, is that we should all parse our words for the sake of not hurting peoples’ feelings. This premise has expanded over time to include allowing children who fail to still advance a grade to spare their feelings, all the way to the coup de gras of political correctness; removing Christ from Christmas. As the politically correct movement has grown, and the vernacular has become more accepted, its defenders have become more and more deft at finding new ways to use it. Most notably, perhaps, came shortly after the attacks of 9/11, when America was on high alert for possible follow on attacks. As a result of the threat, law enforcement officials began doing what they would do in any such situation; they began creating a virtual composite sketch of potential terrorists. This is how we solve and stop crime in America; we identify the most likely perpetrators and then engage surveillance on them. For example, after the Columbine high school shootings, school security teams paid close eye to all sullen boys wearing long trench coats. In the law enforcement world, they call that “profiling,” and it has existed since the first caveman was robbed by some cromagnin wearing his baggy loin cloth down around his knees. Thus in the wake of 9/11, we correctly identified the attackers as radical Islamists, made up exclusively of young Muslim men. Heaven forbid, however, we streamline our resources and correctly pay close attention to such folks. In the age of political correctness, the “feel good police” were ready to pounce and referred to this as “racial profiling,” knowing that anytime you use the word “racial” nowadays, it will elicit an exclusively negative remark. Alas, we made people feel good by searching white grandmothers and allowing Koran carrying turban wearers to pass by without a glance. The examples go on and on for seemingly ever. It is now politically incorrect to believe that man-made global warming is a hoax. However, the biggest proponents of global warming (Al Gore, the Hollywood kooks, etc) are also the biggest burners of fossil fuels bar none. Barbara Streisand’s house and cars alone make Exxon look like Mother Nature herself. The hypocrisy is stunning. As we watched former President Bill Clinton (once literally awarded the title “America’s first black president” for his alleged love of the African American race) dissolve into an abject racist as his wife ran for the presidency, the true mantra of political correctness came clear: Behave in the way I tell so that peoples’ feelings will be spared, not because I truly believe in what I am asking of you. In other words, Clinton was, is and always has been a liar and has never truly cared about black people nor has he ever considered them to be equal…he just wanted you to believe that was the case. Which brings us to perhaps the most hypocritically sickening story of the politically correct movement: Children born with “Down’s Syndrome (DS),” and other genetically caused disabilities have always been the target of much ridicule, almost all of it caused by peoples’ inability to deal with the handicap and their ignorance about it. Examining the motives of peoples’ ridicule is futile, however, because the answer will always be “human nature.” Everyone gets made fun of, whether disabled or simply different. Short people, fat people, bald people, stupid people and everyone in between gets made fun of and always will. Despite that great cosmic truth, however, the politically correct movement has deemed that calling a DS diagnosed child a “retard,” (or any other form thereof) is politically incorrect and mean. DS children are gifts from God, we’re told, and are essentially “just like everyone else,” despite, I submit, evidence to the contrary. I have dealt with this idiocy for my entire life, for I grew up just houses away from a mentally retarded boy. When people then, as they do now, would chide me for calling them “names,” my answer has always been the same; what world do you live in? The human race is a mean culture, by nature and you do not confront that by a futile attempt to remove the behavior, you confront it by teaching people the shortcomings of the speaker and how to aptly tolerate the fact that people suck. People who call our radio show say that some poor retard’s mother might be listening when we use that term and she will begin to cry. This is political correctness in a nutshell; hide the behavior rather than asking people to grow up and learn to find ways to properly confront and react to such behavior. Some people have even written entire articles going further and literally stating that the world would be a far worse place without DS children. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article633433.ece)
But there is a bigger crime against not just society, but humanity going on here. As we have all been told that DS children are these great gifts to be treasured who are “just like everyone else,” modern medicine has advanced. We are now able, almost always, to tell expecting parents whether or not their child is a mutant. Lo and behold, despite 40 years of political correctness and trying to change human nature and convince the society that there’s nothing different about DS children, less than 13% of all American parents who had such knowledge still kept their fetus. Written another more horrifying way, 87% of people are aborting their pregnancies rather than giving birth to a retard. How accepting of us. Thus reveals, yet again, the great lie of political correctness; all of it comes from “fantasyland.” Political correctness demands that you say things out loud that we all know are not true. The truth of that matter is that is exceptionally hard to raise a DS child. For starters, they die young and almost always live at home their entire lives, with rare exception. They require around the clock care, have multiple special needs and will provide none of the traditional childhood moments so many parents sadly live for. Political correctness has done its’ best to provide phony versions of little league sports heroic moments, and academic achievements and the like but at the end of the day everyone, most notably the parents, still know the truth; their kid is retarded. All of the lies and spared feelings on Earth don’t change the truth. Which is why, when presented with the choice of having no child, or a retarded one, 87% of us choose none, abort, and move on. Please don’t misunderstand me; I am neither horrified nor an activist about abortion. I am horrified and an activist about dishonesty. I, with the agreement of my wife, would make the exact same decision if I were to ever be in such a horrible situation. The difference, however, is that I wouldn’t lie about it. For I have never tried to convince people that abnormalities in society are normal, because by definition they are not. Strange people are born; or in this case, aborted. Some day, I pray, the horrors of lying to ourselves and to each other will be aborted.
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