Sense and Sensibility

Sorry but I have recycled some material from my previous post here. I was going to take it down but it has alreadyelicited some thoughtful responses so there it stands as a testament to the …ahem creative process( lack of imagination)





A report has concluded that political correctness allowed a pair of homosexual foster parents to sexually abuse children in their care,( Adapted from the Telegraph article ) . Social workers were reluctant to investigate Craig Faunch and Ian Wathey for fear of being accused of prejudice Instead, they were viewed as "trophy carers" who had a "badge" which made their actions less questionable. (in fact)….they had been using the boys for sexual gratification.

The two were jailed last year for a string of offences against four boys, aged between eight and 14, at their home in Pontefract, West Yorks.
The victims were among 18 children placed with the pair, Yorkshire's first homosexual foster parents, between August 2003 and January 2005.An independent inquiry concluded that the children were let down by "failures in performance" …The panel, found: "The fear of being discriminatory led them to fail to discriminate between the appropriate and the abusive.” ." ….Michelle Elliott, of the charity Kidscape, said: "Common sense went out of the window when they allowed political correctness to take over in this case."

I have commented before on the way the BBC kept the incidence of AIDS among African immigrants a secret Lets have a look at what this Political correctness is and why it is so pernicious an evil. It is , I would argue, a special type of emotional thinking , the modern " Sensibility" but not the only one

It starts with the laudable aim of defending the weak against the strong . For this reason it is more acceptable for religious fundamentalists to deliberately kill as many innocent civilian as possibly?( Hamas suicide bombers ) than for a Liberal democracy , Israel, to selectively kill terrorist leaders responsible for a wave of suicide bombers. It is taken as read that the world will demonstrate against the tribal prejudice of white South Africans but ignore the equally tribal prejudice and occasional slaughter of other Africa ruling tribes that happen to be the same colour as the ‘oppressed' . Do they expect more from the whites ? There is a recurring theme of sublimated superiority certainly .

Once the left ,usually , have defined a group as victims, the attitude ossifies into an unbreachable wall protecting its members from all rational thought . For example the Dutch film maker Theo Van Gogh was ritually murdered for insulting Islam but the Guardian automatically sided with the “powerless” Islamic Dutch Morroccan killer. Look at the way the deaths of 52 innocent people were reported as compared the accidental killing of one innocent Brazillian. I don`t defend the Police , but the coverage of the fifty two was obliterated in days by this more agenda friendly story.

Essentially the formula is this
1 Identify the victim or victim group
2 Support them and their interests ,irrespective of any other factors

Thus America is always wrong even pitched against China but Tibet is always right against China ( and correctly in my view in the latter case).. One of the problems of identifying the victim group is that its personality becomes a single unit . For this reason little thought is given to homophobia amongst Jamaicans , or forced Marriages , or the cruelty of halal butchery as compared to the endless Parliamentary time wasted of fox hunting. I like the contrast between the Independent headline and the Telegraph concerning a suppressed report by the European Monitoring Centre showing Muslims were responsible for attacking Jews

INDEPENDENT- White Men Blamed as Attacks on Jews Rise- (Lie )
TELEGRAPH- EU ‘covered up’ attacks on Jews by young Muslims ( True)

Becoming part of a victim group makes you invulnerable hence the clamour to become one . Naughty boys now have “Attention -Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder”
“The way you feel about it “ increasingly trumps “ the way it is “ in a process His Grace has coined the word Diana-isation for. Campaigning against word poverty makes everyone feel good but attacking African leaders for poor governance is a 'downer '.Not a pop star to be seen..

Liberal guilt spreads and diffuses the semi understood categories .Greg Dyke described the BBC as hideously white . How so , Asians are over presented as law schools and medical colleges but noone would calling them hideously Asian?

When the white West was supposed to be breeding beyond control over population was rarely from our screen .It was agonised over with all the pre apocalyptic relish of latter day environmental ululators . Now population growth is largely caused by immigration and identifiable racial groups .” Wanting fewer brown babies “ as Tony Benn put it cannot be said.

Sometimes the self flagellation becomes chortlesome . Decca Aitkenhead claimed that Jamaican homophobia was the result of 400 years of slaves being sodomised by their white owners…. Rather than condemning attitudes a better emotion she wrote “Would be culpability” . The jaw drops .

We the good and virtuous people of this land have to retain our balance in a tidal flood of emotionalist hypocracy . When Ken Livingstone greets Yusuf al-Qaradawi because he is a major religious leader we must ask if he would meet a Christian leader with similar views. This leader would have to advocate the creation of theocratic state where homosexuality is punishable by death, wife beating permitted free speech , trade unions individual liberty democracy and protest crushed. I somehow doubt it . The Westerner is always guilty .

Ken recently cried like a ludicrously bloated baby when apologising to Jesse Jackson for white enslavement of blacks .He says nothing about the Arab enslavement of the same people over a longer period which is still ongoing .

I have been wondering if there is a right wing version of the emotion trumping the facts. I am going to carefully suggest there may be...

Instinctively one believes that acts against children allow us to suspend all rational distinctions but should we ? We would agree would we not that to look with lustful thoughts at picture of a child being raped ,depraved as it is , cannot be as bad as raping a child . That does not seem to have applied in the case of Chris Langham who was publicly convicted of what is almost a “Thought Crime" of equal seriosuness . I am aware ,naturally ,that support for such a repellent industry as child pornography is physical abuse by proxy ,but that there is still a distinction between this and actually molesting a child .
.I suggest that in this difficult case we should still be clear minded enough to distinguish between a man’s soul for which he answers to God, and his actions, which we may punish with far greater severity here. Where are Liberty for Chris Langham ? We on the right are quick to support Liberty when they spot the encroachment of the concept of thought crime into jurisprudence and common acceptance even when it is those “ countenancing “ terrorism but silent on his behalf . His crimes are quiet severe enough to warrant considerable punishment imprisonment ,of course, but they could have been a lot worse. That is the truth
It is not easy to look at emotive subjects with sense but when I look at the horrifying results for the boys in the charge of Craig Faunch and Ian Wathey when clear judgement was suspended , I see we must always be on guard against allowing sensibiltiy to defeat sense.