Celebrity chef Paula Deen seems to have run into a spot of trouble because she admitted that many years ago she used the word nigger.
It makes you wonder how many times other Democrats used it back then.
I specifically remember one Democrat telling me back in the 1960s during a local election, We will win if we can get the nigger vote out.
I suspect that revered Democrat the late Robert Byrd, having been a high-ranking Ku Klux Klansman, might have used it a time or two.
But Byrd apologized and was forgiven for his sins.
George Wallace apologized, too. As far as I know he was never forgiven by any liberal for his actions while a segregationist.
The point of all this being that liberals are quick to take offense and hold grudges when the transgressor is a conservative, but unusually tolerant when he is a liberal.
One might almost call it a double standard.
The word nigger is almost never used in the liberal media, having been supplanted by the approved euphemism n-word. As far as I can tell it is the only word in the English language that is treated thusly. (An interesting history of the word is here.)
Various other words once were considered unfit for general public use, but liberals have fought to tear those cultural barriers down, insisting such words were merely words.
But words have meanings, don't they?
Perhaps not at least when used by liberals.
Taxes which most people understand to be money taken from them to be used as politicians choose are revenue enhancements. Money wasted on pork-barrel projects that go to the friends of politicians are termed investments.
Babies slaughtered just before or just after birth are fetuses and the killing is a procedure.
The list goes on and on. He who controls the language controls the people.
I'm all for banning the n-word if it is applied to everyone. But some are allowed to use it with impunity (along with other words many people find inappropriate in public).
I've never quite understood censorship based on political viewpoints. In this case, it is even more out of place given the way liberals have exploited and held back black-skinned Americans, who at one time were overwhelmingly Republicans.
As Louisiana State Sen. Elbert Guillory, who recently switched from the liberal party to the Republican Party, said in a viral video, ... at the heart of liberalism is the idea that only a great and powerful big government can be the benefactor of social justice for all Americans. But the left is only concerned with one thing -- control. And they disguise this control as charity. [] [T]hese programs arent designed to lift black Americans out of poverty, they were always intended as a mechanism for politicians to control the black community.
Liberal compassion for liberal black-skinned Americans is much like their alleged compassion for everyone else. As I often ask, what is so compassionate about spending other people's money?
Lloyd Brown was in the newspaper business nearly 50 years, beginning as a copy boy and retiring as editorial page editor of the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville. After retirement he served as speech writer for Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
