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Here’s the conclusion of another excellent column from Mark Steyn:
Going along to get along is killing
our society, and the one tiny act that anyone with a modicum of self-respect
can perform is refusing to participate. For example, the American Medical
Association could try butching up to the standards of nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Heverin of Aberdeen University.
Following a campaign led by overseas students to ban the British military from
campus, Miss Heverin said:
If
the British military makes them feel uncomfortable, why did they come to a
British uni?
Then she added, for good measure:
Rule,
Britannia!
Young Miss Heverin was promptly
banned from all Students Association premises for "discriminatory or
racist language", and kicked out of the Politics and International
Relations Society for "having a right-wing bias". It's the instant,
vicious pettiness of these vile twerps that impresses.
Yet, since the
"controversy" broke, a nineteen-year-old student has held firm-ish -
or, anyway, more firm than the editor of JAMA or the director of the
Royal Botanical Gardens or the chiefs of US Special Operations Command.
And so it spreads . . . from the
faculty lounge to the botanical gardens to the general staff to the surgeon in
your operating room and the pilot of your plane. Some years ago I wrote:
The
dwindling number of sane people in the western world vaguely assume that the
politically correct celebrate-diversity nonsense is confined to our
increasingly worthless universities or NPR panel discussions. But not so. It's
burrowed its way into everything, and is slowly but remorselessly moronizing
even vital areas of life.
And some years before that - after
a great man, Sir Tim Hunt, had his career vaporized by an
utter fraud called Connie St Louis:
So
we lose a superb Nobel scientist but keep a third-rate lying mediocrity. My
problem with all this is that, increasingly, key levers of society are being
ceded to the irredeemably stupid and mendacious, who seem to be the only ones
capable of navigating the rocks and rapids of political correctness. One has
the uneasy feeling that similar scenarios are playing out every day around the
western world. How long before the planes start dropping out of the sky?
Not long now.
Mark Steyn’s full column is here.
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