Political correctness will be the rope with which we hang ourselves, and it will not be the merciful sort of hanging where we drop from a significant height, quickly breaking our neck. No, it will be more akin to sticking our head through the noose, looping it over a tree branch then walking at a leisurely pace down a gently sloping hill until we are slowly choked to death. It is already getting hard to breathe.

Political correctness has altered the way we function to our societal detriment. We have colleges that ration the number of slots available to non-minority students, filling the other slots with minorities whether or not they are qualified by normal standards to attend the institution. As described by Law professors Vikram Amar and Richard Sander in the L.A. Times, this appears to be potentially detrimental to those very minorities who enter a school with substandard qualifications:

Data from across the country suggest to some researchers that when law students attend schools where their credentials (including LSAT scores and college grades) are much lower than the median at the school, they actually learn less, are less likely to graduate and are nearly twice as likely to fail the bar exam than they would have been had they gone to less elite schools. This is known as the "mismatch effect."

So it is not good for the minorities being pushed into an academic climate they are unprepared for, it is not good for those who were prepared but couldn’t attend because they were discriminated against based on their sex, race, ethnicity;  we can assume it is not good for the American consumers who will settle for less capable doctors, lawyers, dentists, and so on. Who is it good for? Only those who feel good about themselves for instituting such a politically correct and culturally sensitive program.

On some of those campuses, free speech is a thing of the past. Speech Codes include punishment for such nebulous offenses as “demeaning epithets” which could be construed to apply to any damn thing some feminazi gets het up over. Ahmadinejad can speak freely but be careful no guy calls the wrong girl ‘Honey’. 

Thanks to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (gosh it sounds so good doesn’t it?), employers who use their private capital to open a privately owned business will be forced to hire people who may be disadvantageous to their business. Therefore, when granny opens a Christian bookstore and a cross-dresser applies she will have to hire him regardless of whether there are other less controversial candidates who are equally qualified for the job. If she does not she will risk having to prove in court at great expense that she did not discriminate based on his proclivity to wear fake breasts and too much eyeliner. Would anyone force a black business owner to hire someone who wears a hood and pointy white hate to work? Of course not and that is as it should be. The problem is the rules for some but not for others. In an effort to establish some cosmic sense of equal results, we will discriminate in favor of the perceived underdog, without acknowledging that by definition that requires discriminating against the perceived oppressor. Where is the equal protection under the law?

Well it disappears in the face of ‘hate crimes’ legislation. Now we are to believe that a gay man beaten up by someone who does not believe homosexuality is a proper life choice is somehow more injured than if he were beaten up by his gay lover, a statistically far more frequent occurrence. This requires punitive action to be measured according to one’s beliefs and is thereby criminalizing thought to some degree. Suddenly, you are entitled to equal protection under the law unless you hold opinions that are unpopular with the PC Brigade. 

All of these progressions have served to stifle open and honest debate and, in the case of campus speech codes, have probably lowered the marriage and birth rates of college students who cannot figure out how to hit on a girl without risking a letter of censure. 

Yes, it is getting hard to breathe. 

Still, we keep strolling down that hill as the noose tightens and here we find ourselves with our faces turning purple as we attempt to deal considerately with those who have vowed to destroy us. Yes, I am speaking of the Islamists. We keep hearing that only a small handful of Muslims are radicalized, and I am sure that is true. I would like to point out that only a small percentage of Germans were gassing Jews.

When you have over a billion Muslims in the world only a small percentage need to be radicalized to wreak tremendous havoc. Furthermore, what exactly constitutes radical? Is a radical one who is willing to detonate himself in a shopping mall? What about those who simply support the practice? Why must we go to youtube to see images of Muslim rallies right here in the U.S. led by screaming Imams saying that the 9/11 terrorists were heroes? To see people claiming to be Hamas rallying in Minnesota and shouting down the Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison as he attempts a moderate plea for peace in the Middle East? Why is this not front-page news when people with these very beliefs slaughtered thousands of our fellow citizens less than a decade ago?

Of course, the answer is Political Correctness. Brigit Gabrielle, survivor of the Islamist genocide of Christians in Lebanon rhetorically asked, “Where are the moderate Muslims?” She demanded to know why here, in the United States, the one place they could express their outrage at the hijacking of their peaceful religion, they were not pouring into the streets to demonstrate that outrage. Well I ask, “Why should they?” We downplay the seriousness of the threat. We scoff at the idea that it could happen here even after it did. We bend over backwards to ensure that every child knows Islam is a religion of peace. In California, grade schools instituted an “Islamic Immersion Week” including prayer mats, Muslim garb, Muslim names and a jihad dice game. We would not dare demand that the moderate Muslims stand up and be counted, for in our little PC fantasy a changed dialogue means an altered reality. 

Well someone needs to inform the fifteen percent of U.S. Muslims under 30 who support suicide bombings that Islam is a religion of peace before we escape this PC noose by way of having our head sawed off.