Like the gays who abused the boy because authorities too scared to investigate for fear of being called prejudiced? Like the criminal who is not stopped for fear of the victim or the police being called a racist?
2007-09-07 03:59:01 · 13 answers · asked by other boy 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Yes
i) "In his book, The End of Sanity, Martin Gross writes that 'blatantly irrational behavior is rapidly being established as the norm in almost every area of human endeavor. There seem to be new customs, new rules, new anti-intellectual theories regularly foisted on us from every direction. Underneath, the nation is roiling. Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong. And they don't like it.' ...Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America's campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who're supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression? Let's be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you, too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. You are the best and the brightest. You, here in the fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River, you are the cream. But I submit that you, and your counterparts across the land, are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that...and abide it...and you are- by your grandfathers' standards-cowards....If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe." Charlton Heston, February 16, 1999, Harvard Law School Forum. (www.narila.org/ila/hestonhs.htm)
2007-09-07 04:02:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
No, I don't think they do.
While the Daily Mail might like to highlight the story about the gay couple abusing a child, the same mistakes are made by Social Services when dealing with other couples.
Similarly, if you compare how often young black men undergo 'stop and search' with how often this happens to young white men, I don't think you'd find that the police worry too much about political correctness or accusations of racism.
But people who have a different agenda do love to rail against 'political correctness' when they feel that someone (especially of a different race) might get something that they don't.
2007-09-07 10:39:48 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Sceptic 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nobody gets away with anything---the courts are biased AGAINST the people you mentioned---sit in on a district court's daily docket sometime, you'll see it.
And it's not racial---it's a class thing. "White trash" and "ghetto" are equal negative stereotypes in the eyes of the law in any mixed area. If it's a rich white/poor black area, then the minorities are in trouble. If it's a racially mixed rich/poor white area, the white kids are in trouble. Basically, if you're poor, live in a bad area, speak with a strong dialect, etc, you're in trouble.
No one EVER avoids charging a pedophile for fear of the "gay community"---I've NEVER seen this EVER be an issue, and I've been involved in the legal system for years. Mainly because they're frequently NOT "gay", they want KIDS, not really a gender.
2007-09-07 05:16:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. I think a lot of people get away with crimes because of political correctness, but others are jumped on heavier because of it. (For example a simple argument abut a spilled drink outside a nightclub will turn into a massive 'racial incident' by the police if one of them was from a so called 'ethnic minority')
I think the biggest problem is the liberal attitude and human rights act which many criminals/scumbags hide behind.
2007-09-07 04:04:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Any facet of the law can be a two edged sword,certain laws,brought into force, by people who have no first hand experience of the problems involved,are actually regularly used by the legal underworld of racially or politically motivated lawyers,for their own ends,irrespective of justice being done.
2007-09-07 04:09:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes; fear of minorities, women's libbists, homosexual's rights groups, etc., causes many distortions in "justice"; they also have a far greater power in politics than mere numbers.
Look at the Matthew Shepard incident; that was pure robbery, but the national media made it a show! Any one who goes to a bar and flashes his wallet is not all there....
2007-09-07 04:05:05 · answer #6 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't know if it's political correctness that's to blame and I'm a bit dubious about your examples, but human rights legislation certainly has a lot to answer for.
2007-09-07 04:03:06 · answer #7 · answered by Nexus6 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I would not say they get away with it more often but without a doubt human rights and P.C. are often used. The racial card is another one and I think used far more often than P.C.
2007-09-07 04:12:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
some one else is wakening up yes it goes on double standards, its gone on for years but now its reaching silly proportions
2007-09-07 05:46:20 · answer #9 · answered by quasar 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It does happen sometimes
2007-09-07 05:43:43 · answer #10 · answered by henry m 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋