I canceled the sleepover

[onionsoupmix]

My 8 year old was going to have a sleepover for her birthday party. It was a big deal, with lots of planning and excitement. Making cupcakes, seeing a movie, getting their nails done, etc.

We invited a few kids from the neighborhood, one of them was our secular ( possibly not Jewish?) next door neighbor's kid, a cute second grader.

Today, one of my

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Politically correct speech

[ext_756641]

Politically Correct Speech.
This makes sense today. But in Ancient America it was the Primary American Virtue to say what you mean and to mean what you say. This was protected speech according to the First Amendment.
But today to speech your mind will get you a prison sentence.
A justification for this, perhaps, is that it gives all individuals the right to prove themselves and not to be judged by the stereotype, whether accurate or inaccurate, of their ethnic group.
But this goes further than free speech. Now can force an employer to hire someone she knows is unqualified.
We force an employer not to use their knowledge in a reasonable way. It forces them to hire irrationally, not rationally, regardless of all their experience, and to deal with all the trouble that they know they could have avoided.
A singer in a private club used the word "spic" in a song to refer to Spanish Americans. A person walking outside the club heard this. Criminal charges were brought against the club owner.
Do you really want to raise your child to be apart of this? If the Democrats would have their way they would round up everyone that spoke a politically incorrect word and machine gun them down up and then brag that they had eliminated intolerance from America.
That being said i admit i spent all my spare time in yeshiva (outside the regular gemara seder) learning mishna taharot about tuma.
I think i over did this because now these concepts have grown larger that the actual halacha. This is a good example of this. what gentile touches is not tamai at all. However this demonstrates how this meme can grow beyond it proper limits.
That being said we do a way to evaluate moral issues. The Gemara provides a source and of exercising growing ones'moral sense. This is a good thing

Re: Politically correct speech

[onionsoupmix]

Just because some types of speech/actions are legally protected doesn't mean these are the types of speech or action I'd like my child to engage in.

It's legal for someone to protest soldier's funerals with offensive messages, for example, but that's not something I want my child to do.

Also, it is a misconception to think that employers can be forced to hire unqualified people. That is not accurate. Unless, of course, you think that all minorities and women are per se unqualified :(

Re: Politically correct speech

[ext_756641]

It is not a misconception that people have to hire non qualified workers. my brother had a secretary who could not spell or type. I cant count how many times I have had to deal with bureaucrats from minority groups that had no capability to carry out their jobs.
I have to say it sounds like you are from New York and yet you have not had to deal with the problem of dealing with people who were hired only because of affirmative action and had no qualifications?

Re: Politically correct speech

[onionsoupmix]

There is no law, anywhere in any state or in the us code, as far as I am aware, that requires employers to hire people because of race and regardless of qualifications. If your brother is mistaken on this point, that is unfortunate for him.

I would guess that on many occasions you have had to deal with bureaucrats from the majority group who were incompetent as well, but you just remember the minority individuals more.

Re: Politically correct speech

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Corporations have to hire unqualified minority otherwise they get slapped with law suits. They need to show they have the right percentage of black employees.