View From the Bushes

Continuing our discussion from yesterday, in yet another stunning display of political correctness run amok, we have the banana incident in Columbus. Apparently during a civil rights march in commeration of MLK's birthday, some woman got off a bus and saw some police officers eating bananas. She was horribly offended and demanded an apology (which she got, by the wa,y both in writing and over the phone from the police chief). But the part where it gets interesting is no one knows why she was offended. She won't say.

Obviously this happened a while ago and much has been said and written about it already, but from what I've seen, most people just classify it as yet another example of something we've already seen a lot of, but I would argue that this is something new; this is a mutation. Certainly it resembles the organism that proceeded it, but this is a whole new creature.

If we have already basically reached a point where we allow people to be offended about anything, we should at least make them come up with some justification for it, no matter how implausible. But if we get to the point where you can be offended about anything and you don't even have to come up with what it was that offended you? I think you can easily see where the oil of restraint which keeps society functioning would quickly be replaced with venom.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross