"PC KILLING US? No. Hate speech is though.

The comedian Louis C.K. said in his controversial monologue on SNL, “I have mild racism.  It’s benign. It’s not aggressive.”

He goes on to say, “Here’s another example of mild racism.  Say I’m at a hospital and the doctor comes in to treat me and the doctor is from China or India I’ll think, ‘Well good, good.  More of that.’  It’s very mild racism.”

I was at the Playland a few days ago with my 5yo son.  Another boy came up to my son who was playing with the video game screen hanging on the wall.  The boy demanded that my son move because the boy wanted a turn.  My son said “no”.  The boy then decided to reach for my son’s face, grip his cheek and claw down his face making it bleed.  My son came to me telling me and pointing  at the boy.

Now let me just say that I am reasonable person, a kind person, an understanding person.  I would never hurt a child.  But, I had to calm and restrain my urge to strangle the little creep that just hurt my boy.

I felt a feeling that I am a little ashamed of – to hurt another person.  We all do from time to time, but as all reasonable people do, we restrain those feelings and behave peacefully.

What exactly is our definition of “peaceful behavior”?  Usually it is at least what the law says it is.  Often is also what social standards say it is in the community that we live in. All too frequently it is what Hollywood shows us as “cool”. 

As we observe and consider the sport-like process that is our presidential campaigning, we have to ask ourselves what damage is caused by leaders that practice and condone hate speech? What happens when they defend it as simply “saying what we’re all thinking”.  What happens when hate speech is considered the antidote to w.....