Re: Political correctness - one minority to another

[David Neeley <dbneeley -at- oddpost -dot- com>]

 By no means is it confined to a minority person making the reference. However, too often members of one minority may be "given a pass" because of that status where members of a majority would not be. 
  
For example, an account on the radio today regarded a black woman member of the U.S. Congress complaining about the Bush Administration failing to intervene in Haiti--whereupon she stated the Administration people involved were "...a bunch of white men." 
  
She happened to be speaking to an Assistant Secretary of State who is a Hispanic American. He stated he was offended by the remark--whereupon she flatly said "You all look alike to me." 
  
This is by no means an isolated example either, unfortunately. 
  
David 
  
-----Original Message from Yaeger Hyde <y_hyde -at- yahoo -dot- com>----- 
  
The recent thread about political coorectness prompts 
me to observe that sometimes members of one oppressed 
minority can say offensive things about another 
minority -- apparently without realizing that they're 
commiting the very offense they hate others to commit 
against them.  I remember two examples involving black 
people.  One was a bus driver who was driving through 
Chinatown and being slowed down by the lunch time 
crowd.  He remarked, "Uh-oh, ruch time."  The other 
was someone who was telling someone else about a 
diamond ring he'd bought, and told the person he'd 
gotten a good price from the seller because "I jewed 
him down."  And that guy worked in a retiremnt home 
populated largely by Jewish people and was in the 
lobby of the building when he said it.