PC - Again!

[Bluesky]

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/...on-free-speech

Rex Murphy: NPR firing assists the fatwa on free speech

Commentator Juan Williams got fired from a 10-year stint with National Public Radio this week for saying “When I get on [a] plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

[KDawg]

A political commentator who expresses his personal opinion? What kind of radical is this Juan Williams?

[Anapeg]

Governments world wide can pass legislation to their hearts content and all they succeed in doing is driving human nature underground. No one can legislate what you think and feel. They can make you hide it but evil tends to grow well when hidden from the light. The roots tend to go deeper and grow stronger when fertilized with fear from your own government as well as a fear of "outsiders".Education. Showing how minimal the differences are. Showing no need for fear and being uncomfortable sheds a light that causes the roots of distrust to whither.

[Westender 3]

Funny,none of you chimed in when this happened to Rick Sanchez a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.soonet.ca/showthread.php?42507-CNN



I'm still not quite over the most disgusting part of the Juan Williams spectacle yesterday: watching the very same people (on the Right and in the media) who remained silent about or vocally cheered on the viewpoint-based firings of Octavia Nasr, Helen Thomas, Rick Sanchez, Eason Jordan, Peter Arnett, Phil Donahue, Ashleigh Banfield, Bill Maher, Ward Churchill, Chas Freeman, Van Jones and so many others, spend all day yesterday wrapping themselves in the flag of "free expression!!!" and screeching about the perils and evils of firing journalists for expressing certain viewpoints. Even for someone who expects huge doses of principle-free hypocrisy -- as I do -- that behavior is really something to behold. And anyone doubting that there is a double standard when it comes to anti-Muslim speech should just compare the wailing backlash from most quarters over Williams' firing to the muted acquiescence or widespread approval of those other firings.
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Yesterday, NPR cashiered correspondent Juan Williams for doing something that had hitherto never been considered an offense in media circles: defaming Muslims. Up until now, you could lose your job for saying intemperate things about Jews and about Christians and about Matt Drudge. You could even lose a job for failing to defame Muslims. But we seem to be in undiscovered country at the moment
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In 1986, Juan Williams participated in a forum in The New Republic regarding a column by The Washington Post's Richard Cohen, who had justified the practice of D.C. jewelry store owners who would "admit customers only through a buzzer system, and [] some store owners use this system to exclude young black males on the grounds that these people are most likely to commit a robbery
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Responding to Cohen's argument, Williams said: "In this situation and all others, common sense in my constant guard. Common sense becomes racism when skin color becomes a formula for figuring out who is a danger to me."

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...ims/index.html


PC applies to everyone but those evil Muslims.Hypocrites

[R W G R]

NPR, a taxpayer-funded entity, fires Juan Williams, a political commentator, for saying he gets nervous when Muslims are on a plane.

Nina Totenberg, a reporter, still is employed at NPR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7msrF1V4NeY

What media bias??