{"id":1340,"date":"2016-02-29T18:39:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2016-02-29T18:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:43:41","slug":"24-p-c-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/24-p-c-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"#24: P.C. Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/spiderman-costume-PC-madness-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/spiderman-costume-PC-madness-blog-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"spiderman-costume - PC madness blog\" width=\"119\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/spiderman-costume-PC-madness-blog-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/spiderman-costume-PC-madness-blog-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/spiderman-costume-PC-madness-blog.jpg 1750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 119px) 100vw, 119px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\nPolitical Correctness is evil.<br \/>\nIt often demands that many people must submit to the will of only a few.<br \/>\nLast fall I read an article in which an entire school cancelled their planned Halloween celebration simply because one kid\u2019s parents didn\u2019t observe the holiday and complained.<br \/>\nOnly one kid\u2019s parents in the whole school protested and now none of the little kids could celebrate Halloween? That\u2019s ridiculous!<br \/>\nSee, this is why maybe it\u2019s best that I never had children myself.<br \/>\nI could never surrender to Political Correctness without putting up a fight.<br \/>\nI would be right there at the next meeting of the school board \u2026 raising my hand\u2026<br \/>\n\u201cMr. D\u2019Angelo, would you like to be heard before the board?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYes, I would. Ladies and gentlemen of the School Committee, I understand that just because the mother and father of one child in this entire school have an issue with honoring the long-held tradition of Halloween, you have decided that none of the other schoolchildren will be allowed to participate in the holiday. Is that true?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYes Mr. D\u2019Angelo, that is correct. We don\u2019t want to leave any of the children feeling left out because of their cultural beliefs.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cOK\u2026 and, to be fair, I wouldn\u2019t want any child to feel left out either, so this is my proposal\u2026<br \/>\n\u201cOn Halloween, whether you spineless stiffs like it or not, my kid will be attending classes wearing a Spiderman costume\u2026<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026 and, to be inclusive, that one child should shove a great big stick up his ass and go to school dressed-up as his stupid, uptight parents.\u201d<br \/>\n(wild applause from all of the other parents in attendance)<br \/>\n<em>\u201cOrder in this meeting! Calm down! This meeting will come to order!\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\u201cThank you\u2026 God Bless America and Happy Halloween.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,23,24,25,32,69,192,193,194,195],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-paul-dangelo","tag-dangelo","tag-comedy","tag-comedian","tag-comic","tag-paul-dangelo-paul-dangelo-comedy","tag-political-correctness","tag-politically-correct","tag-pc","tag-halloween"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p614ww-lC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}