Fightin` Words
This from First Things
If you win, then white supremacist organizations and the Ku Klux Klan can have license plates. There’s be a lot of road rage following that. So said a judge hearing a case brought by the Children First Foundation (CFF), headed by Elizabeth Rex. CFF encourages desperate women to choose adoption rather than abortion, and wants New York State to allow license plates with the motto Choose Life. Many states do allow them, and part of the proceeds from the higher-priced plates goes to the sponsoring organization. It has been a successful fundraising instrument for pro-life organizations. Some states also allow pro-abortion plates, but apparently there are few takers. New York has special plates for more than two hundred organizations, including the AFL-CIO and other labor unions, environmental groups, and Masonic lodges. The Choose Life plate is the only one that has ever been rejected. The state’s worry that such a plate would provoke road rage is a risibly thin disguise of animus toward the cause advanced by CFF. Perhaps the state should ban provocative bumper stickers. And I expect there are people who intensely dislike the AFL-CIO. Free speech for one is free speech for all, unless it involves incitement to illegal actions. Adoption is not illegal in New York State, at least not yet. Some readers might want to drop a note to Governor George Pataki and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
If you win, then white supremacist organizations and the Ku Klux Klan can have license plates. There’s be a lot of road rage following that. So said a judge hearing a case brought by the Children First Foundation (CFF), headed by Elizabeth Rex. CFF encourages desperate women to choose adoption rather than abortion, and wants New York State to allow license plates with the motto Choose Life. Many states do allow them, and part of the proceeds from the higher-priced plates goes to the sponsoring organization. It has been a successful fundraising instrument for pro-life organizations. Some states also allow pro-abortion plates, but apparently there are few takers. New York has special plates for more than two hundred organizations, including the AFL-CIO and other labor unions, environmental groups, and Masonic lodges. The Choose Life plate is the only one that has ever been rejected. The state’s worry that such a plate would provoke road rage is a risibly thin disguise of animus toward the cause advanced by CFF. Perhaps the state should ban provocative bumper stickers. And I expect there are people who intensely dislike the AFL-CIO. Free speech for one is free speech for all, unless it involves incitement to illegal actions. Adoption is not illegal in New York State, at least not yet. Some readers might want to drop a note to Governor George Pataki and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 2:18 PM
4 Comments:
Why is "white racism" always held out to be the ultimate evil, the one acceptable ism to ban?
Obviously there is such a thing, but black racism is now a much more dominant ism in the United States, especially in the politics of such places as Atlanta.
White racism, though, is so thorougly discredited it is no longer any kind of threat, usually, in fact, merely a humorous side-bar.
Black racism, on the other hand, is still strong, in part because the wimps and ignorami in the "news" media are afraid to tackle it.
I agree; an assault on a black person by a white is called a hate crime, while a similar assault by a black on a white (even when the thug admits that is the reason) is assigned a different motive.
The double standard is appalling.
How much credibility would Al Sharpton have, had he been a white redneck? Remember the Tawana Brawley affair? Consider the condemnation this would have brought had Sharpton been white and claimed black police and a black D.A. had raped a white girl. Charges would have been filed against him.
Imagine the White Nation of Islam and a white Louis Farrakahn; they wouldn`t be able to show their faces in public.
Wow Tim your comment was even better than the article although I have no problem with choose life since that is the antithesis of slautering innocents or pro choice in PC talk.
Someday I promise to learn how to proofread but today is not that day.
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