by Jimmy Flatbush

Created on: May 18, 2010   Last Updated: May 19, 2010

First day on a new job, and I already knew I wanted out. After watching over two hours of politically correct human resource gibberish, I was given a tour of the restaurant where I would eventually take over as a manager. My trainer walked me past the dish station when I queried, “What is the dishwasher’s name?”

“We do not call him a dishwasher. That is politically incorrect. He is a Dish Engineer.”

I kept silent, wondering if the Dish Engineer actually engineered the process of washing dishes. After a few minutes, I surmised the Dish Engineer did nothing more than wash dishes, thus making him a Dishwasher. He was as much of an engineer as the garbage men who call themselves Sanitation Engineers.

Political correctness blossomed in the 1990s, as the baby boom generation finally took the reigns of power over from their parents. Not content with fleecing the financial markets and corrupting the political process, the boomers decided to launch an all out assault on free speech. First, political correctness was applied to obvious egregious speech. Then, after a few court cases came back in favor of stifling free speech, the baby boomers decided to classify which demographic groups were covered under politically correct speech. African Americans and women received the most protection from political correctness. Soon to follow were other threatened minority classes such as gays, transgenders, and Hispanics, and baseball players who had three fingers and a thumb.

American democratic principles are ostensibly demonstrated in the Bill of Rights; the first ten amendments to the United Constitution that were put in place to protect individual liberty. The right to free speech is clearly delineated in the first amendment, and it may be the most unequivocal expression of civil liberty present in the country’s bedrock of law. Outside of yelling “fire” in a crowded movie theater, free speech has invariably meant the right of a free people to express their opinions without the threat of persecution, or as is now the case, prosecution.

Somewhere on the great American journey, the Constitution lost its way among an interventionist judicial branch, over zealous executive branch, and generally incompetent, yet corrupt, legislative branch. In an environment such as this, inane trends such as political correctness thrive because people believe what they read and hear from the nation’s elites. It was after all, the Ivy League institutions

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