Junto Boys

Political Correctness is now eating its own. Get this story. A teacher who took offense at a student who called his assignment “gay” sent the student out to the hall. The teacher then asked the class if that was appropriate language.

When some classmates defended the student's use of the word "gay," (teacher Brian) Emanuels responded by saying to the class, "OK, how would you like it if I said, 'I guess the (slur) can come back in?' " according to district officials.

"I used the word, and right after, I asked, 'Is it OK for me to use that term? Of course not. It's a highly offensive word,' " Emanuels said last week.

A student in the computer class told his mother what had happened, and his parents contacted the Seattle chapter of the NAACP.

The teacher was forced to resign. What's not reported here is that blacks don't like being compared to homosexuals. Whether he likes it or not, Emanuels' quest to make politically correct automatons of his students was his downfall. He was more or less saying that someone's behavior is equivalent to someone's race, and that might be a grand idea among white liberal intellectuals, but it doesn’t fly down at the NAACP.

Too many lawyers and activists and media types use our differences to divide us. At some point we're going to have be grownups at laugh off name calling. That's what we teach kids on the playground. Why don't we take our own advice?