Thread: Yeh Ling-Ling: P.C. squashes freedom in U.S.

Yeh Ling-Ling: P.C. squashes freedom in U.S.

01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, June 6, 2009

YEH LING-LING

OAKLAND, Calif.

THIS PAST Thursday, June 4, was the 20th anniversary of the pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and other Chinese cities that ended with a bloody crackdown by the communist government. Some elite Americans have seized this opportunity to fingerpoint at China for denying its citizens political freedom. But is the United States still the land of the free and the brave?

Undeniably, political freedom does not exist in China. However, many Americans do not dare to speak their minds because of widespread political correctness from shore to shore, reaching all levels of the American community: individuals, public and private entities, the media and elected officials alike. Many pay a price for exercising their freedom of speech.

In January 2005, then-Harvard President Lawrence Summers infuriated academia for suggesting that biological differences between men and women might partly explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers and the lack of female science professors. Despite Dr. Summers’s repeated apology for those remarks, Harvard’s Arts and Sciences faculty still voted to express lack of confidence in him.

In January 2008, Frances Semler resigned from Kansas City’s Park and Recreation Commission after months of intense pressure from Hispanic activists who insisted that the city’s mayor, Mark Funkhouser, fire her because of her membership in the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a group focusing on border security. Instead of defending Semler, the American Civil Liberties Union joined forces with her opponents!

In March 2008, 1984 vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro had to quit the finance committee for then-presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton for stating that Barack Obama’s racial background was the decisive factor in his run for president. Any fair-minded American knows that then-presidential candidate Obama, a junior senator, would have had no chance if he were white.

China’s one-child policy has been attacked by many Americans as undemocratic. Although, clearly, forced abortions should be avoided, isn’t it more humane to restrict families to one child than to allow large families when many kids would go hungry? Should Americans take pride in the fact that 10 percent of the births in the United States in 2006 were to teens between 15 and 19?

If the United States really practices democracy, shouldn’t elected officials work for the American people and be elected only by the American people? Yet bill after bill has been introduced at the state and federal levels granting benefits to illegal immigrants! Furthermore, for over a decade, voter fraud committed by illegal foreign nationals has been reported in the news, yet little has been done to address this issue.

Political leaders of both parties also want to be politically correct instead of representing the interests of the American people. Even though 14 million Americans have lost their jobs in the recession, one-third of all foreign-born people in the U.S. have no health insurance, and 10 percent of kids in our grade schools speak little to no English, neither President Obama nor congressional leaders advocate drastic immigration reduction.

Instead of being the president of the American people, both President Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, have felt the need to consult with the presidents of Mexico in immigration matters. Both have yielded to the demands by the Mexican government by vigorously promoting amnesty for at least 12 million illegal immigrants and massive guest-worker visas against the interests of American citizens.

Indeed, China’s media are not free. However, many American media, both on the left and on the right, have become advocates. Fewer and fewer newspapers would allow viewpoints opposing their editorial boards’ in their op-ed pages. Instead of reporting hard facts, more and more media are ducking issues that they view to be explosive, such as the impact of mass immigration on Americans.

Few in the media have shown our elected officials who are burying their heads in the sand that the United States cannot effectively solve unemployment, reduce health-care costs, improve our educational system, or lower energy costs if millions of foreign-born people — legal immigrants, illegal migrants, “guest-workersâ€

He gets it! More and more people are getting it. End this PC BS now!

Originally Posted by miguelina

He gets it! More and more people are getting it. End this PC BS now!

FYI, Yeh Ling Ling is female.

China’s one-child policy has been attacked by many Americans as undemocratic. Although, clearly, forced abortions should be avoided, isn’t it more humane to restrict families to one child than to allow large families when many kids would go hungry? Should Americans take pride in the fact that 10 percent of the births in the United States in 2006 were to teens between 15 and 19?

Did you see where China is full of batchlors now because there isn't enough women to go around.
They have been aborting girls since the one child rule.
I wonder if you have twins if one has to die?

I have to disagree with Yeh about one thing: we have the freedom of speech to criticize anyone anywhere at all times, including the Chinese. And the Chinese, that could bring down our financial system in one day are also hampering free speech in this country.
Yes, that freedom has seriously been hampered by those who have scared the crap out of us that any communications we have may be monitored under the Patriot Act and we might be on some terror watchlist. At least in the Old Soviet Union, people knew that they could not talk against the regime. I don't think Americans will ever let PC get that far.

Originally Posted by vortex

I have to disagree with Yeh about one thing: we have the freedom of speech to criticize anyone anywhere at all times, including the Chinese. And the Chinese, that could bring down our financial system in one day are also hampering free speech in this country.
Yes, that freedom has seriously been hampered by those who have scared the crap out of us that any communications we have may be monitored under the Patriot Act and we might be on some terror watchlist. At least in the Old Soviet Union, people knew that they could not talk against the regime. I don't think Americans will ever let PC get that far.

Then spend another TRILLION and buy back all our debt from them!

What is another Trillion!

dregerk, I agree. Let's spend all the money to get the securities back, and that way the Chinese will have the money to buy more of the newly-issued Treasury obligations so we can save greedy corporations from their screw-ups, just to protect the jobs of Americans (and illegals), give huge bonuses to fat cats so they can afford resorts for their "conferences".
The fault of this global collapse I put at the feet of Hank Paulson, who came out screaming on Sept. 15 with a 2-page "save the economy" proposal, and freaked out the world. By the time the bill got out of committee, a vote was called (forced) and few had had time to read it in either chamber, much less consider the implications or even think about putting rules and stipulations on how the funds would be used.
China and Russia have already been murmuring about a new reserve currency besides the dollar, perhaps a basket of currencies where the dollar may play a smaller part.
I believe that scenario to be real and, as an adjuct to that train of thought, there are few of our elected in past administrations that would dare to criticize the Chinese about anything.