PC Part II - The boy who cried wolf

Bigot. Fascist. Racist. Homophobe. Prejudice. Intolerant. Anti-Semite. I have heard those words so many times that they seriously mean nothing to me. When I hear someone call someone else any one of those words, I simply tune the caller out.

Nowadays, the only time I'd listen to those words is when it's in a comedy skit, like how Uncle Leo in Seinfeld called everyone an anti-Semite. The cook accidently screwed up his order and gave him a ham sandwich. Of course, he must be an anti-Semite. That's funny stuff.

Or even better, the Dave Chapelle show. I know his show is rude and crude, but he makes me laugh. I loved it when Dave Chapelle was the blind head of the KKK. That's funny stuff. If you don't know who Dave Chapelle is, he's a comedian who will do anything to be funny even if it means offending everyone. I'm surprised some do-gooder Tipper Gore wannabe hasn't tried to censor him yet.

See, this is another thing I love about America. The little nuances that make up our humor foreigners just don't get. The Canadians get it because we're practically the same people, except they have better sex than we do and they have this concept called health care, but we make more money and own cooler guns. But other foreigners always get offended by our humor. Come on, if they get offended by me, do you really think they could stomach Dave Chapelle?

Where in the world was I planning on going with this? Oh yeah, I'm talking about the boy who cried wolf. Remember that story when you were a kid? Well, there will always be people like the Jesse Jackson types who will look for racism when it's not there and scream and shout until everyone walks away. His work will actually undermine the great strides that some of my heroes like Dr. King and Rosa Parks did, because everyone else is just tired of hearing about it. When I hear the words "racist," "bigot," "intolerance," "sexist," "prejudice," I shut them out. I'm sick of it. Those words are so overused by the people who will never experience prejudice in their life that when real prejudice happens, nobody lifts a finger to help.

Frankly, Americans are all in the same boat. It doesn't matter what color skin you have, your religion, your gender, etc. Our government has become the world's rent-a-cop and spends like there's no tomorrow. We're giving our economy to every other nation but us. We're letting everyone and their grandma immigrate here. I think there are much bigger fish to fry than dealing with people's feelings. And also, the way I see it, if someone is offended that easily, they're way too thin-skinned to survive the upcoming zombie plague.

P.S. For all you Dave Chapelle fans, of course he's getting an invitation to the compound.

P.P.S. My immigrant bashing has nothing to do with legal immigrants. Those good folk actually pass tests in American history, our culture, and our Constitution. They end up knowing more about America than a lot of native born Americans do.