This is the political correct world we live in
A 7-year-old boy is being accused of "racism" because he asked his fellow pupil if he was "brown because he was from Africa"
http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Boy-7-accused-racism-curious-question-Griffin/story-15265085-detail/story.html
Is political correctness so precious that a 7-year-old boy can't even ask question no more?
The explanation for that is in a way very simple, but logically the complete situation is extremely complex.
My simplest explanation for this is that in the past decades, especially here in The Netherlands, the more liberal political parties were running the business.
Liberal as in not conservative.
What you see here is that liberal parties (Dutch users; liberal means not 'liberaal' in this particular case, but is more loosely translated to "vrij") very often use the argument of morale in their debates.
This has became their way of politics in the past decades. It has been a very succesful way of argumentation since the people are very sensitive to it if a politician says "we should allow every alien/foreigner to enter our country and offer them a house/job/subsidy, because if you don't then that's morally not responsible".
This way in the past decades EVERYTHING was possible in The Netherlands. It gave us a lot of good things, but in the past decade with the HUGE influx of immigrants and even stronger growth of moral discussion/arguments by these politicians a lot of tension has grown.
Shortly summarized: everything should be accepted with arms wide open, no limits, no difference in people (which generally is good).
What happens now: conservative parties grow in popularity as it turns out the liberal parties made a mess of it since their morally responsible problems also cost a damn lot of money. There's not much argument there, since it's fact-based, world-wide. There's a sinusoidal trend in politics where the conservative policians cleans up the mess of the liberals, often by making very impopular decisions which are morally questioned by the liberals ;)
Once the mess is cleaned up the liberals regain power and the process starts over again.
Currently we're in a transitional phase where conservative and liberal parties struggle to control the situations, which lead to expanded attention to futile incidents like with this kid.
What this kid did, as understandable as it is since the kid just can't know/understand (yet), is now used as a vehicle for liberal parties to show they're morally superior.
"Abel Rivera, chief officer of Humber All Nations Alliance, which works with 38 different ethnic groups in Hull to encourage race equality, backed the school."
charity number 1116725
HUMBER ALL NATIONS ALLIANCE LIMITED
Some account donors:
Hull Primary Care Trust (i.e. the NHS) £175,677
City Health Care Partnership project £21,750
Humber NHS Trust £7,850
East Riding Migrant Impact Fund £11,834
total grant amount of £438,858
Here are some typical random BS and revealing catchphrases by themselves about what they do:
third sector organisation
credible delivery partner
decision-making contexts
capacity-building
partnership bodies
facilitating consultation
identify obstacles
drawing representatives
sharing the responsibility
giving voice to communities
promote community cohesion
encouraging cooperation
members and stakeholders
sharing information
creating opportunities
discussion and debate
setting the agenda for change
infrastructure organisations
deliver change at a sectoral level
In other words, they do virtually nothing by stealing large amounts of tax payers money to create make work projects for themselves. The NHS in the UK is one massive area where money is syphoned off into useless projects.
Maybe the school should have reported the kid here and Abel Rivera would have approved:
http://www.hanaonline.org.uk/hate-crime-reporting-centre
Except the only possible real crime under UK common law is defamation against the kid by accusing him of racism.
Indeed, we have similar issues over here in the US. Those who want a big government (Modern Progressive Liberals) and those who want a free market and limited government (Libertarians and Traditional Conservatives). Right now it is the Republican Establishment (neo-cons) and the Ron Paul crowd against the current Administration.
If the people stopped talking about racism, it would eventually go away, at least i would hope. I only believe in the Human Race.