Round-up

1. On May 7, Canadian North Park Collegiate's Anti-Racism Committee(ARC) and Gay/Straight Alliance(GSA) are hosting their first Pride and Diversity Day. That'll show 'em!

There is a telling paragraph near the beginning of this article. In a discussion about verbal abuse students starting high school are likely to receive on the average day, it says this:

""That's gay," seems to be one of the most popular phrases heard today. Students use the word gay as a negative term meaning bad and stupid and this is the type of discrimination that students at North Park Collegiate are trying to eliminate."

Did you catch that? Despite admitting that the word "gay" has been removed from its context by today's youth and used to mean something different, it's still insisted that this is a "type of discrimination" against gays.

2. The American Thinker is usually pretty good, but I did not appreciate this piece from them, in which they bemoan the mainstream media's lack of attention paid to newspaper owner Michael Lacey, who recently referred to a deceased African-American journalist as "my nigger".

But here's the thing. "My nigger" isn't a racial slur. It is a common phrase used within black culture itself. Does the AT mean to suggest that some words are acceptable among blacks but not among whites? And does his suggestion have its roots within the black community - i.e. was it blacks who decided that whites aren't allowed to use the word "nigger" while they are? And if so, how racist is that?