Common Sense Political Thought

Oliver Willis, the left-wing Democratic blogger from the DC metro area who hammers on All Things Racist, posted the following:

Holy Insane Racist High School Teacher, Batman

Wow. Just… wow.

“These sorts of things are going to upset people, but the truth can be very upsetting,” said Brookland-Cayce High School teacher Winston McCuen.

That truth, at least according to McCuen, is that black people are inferior to whites.

“Intellectually, yes they are,” said McCuen. “This has been confirmed over and over, and this is a generalization. Again, there are some blacks who are more intelligent than individual whites. But as a rule, that is true. I-Q tests prove it over, and over and over.”

News19’s J.R. Berry asked McCuen, “Do you think slavery in America was a good thing? “Yes,” said McCuen. “In America there was a rational assessment saying listen, if we give these people freedom right as they are and you have to go back to see how they were, you can’t assume they were like us.

J.R. asked, “How were they?” “They were coming out of the jungles,” said McCuen. “They had been enslaving each other for centuries in Africa, and in terms of being used to rule of law, they knew none of that.”

I’m waiting for cable news to make as much noise about this guy as the teacher who (wrongly) went on an anti-Bush rant during his class.

A high school teacher says slavery was a good thing.

WHAT THE HELL, SOUTH CAROLINA?

Although Mr Willis did provide the link to this, he didn’t mention in his story that Mr McCuen is history:

(T)he Emory University graduate is on administrative leave after News19 informed Lexington District Two about his comments. He won’t be back next year.

There isn’t much need for the cable companies or the state of South Carolina to raise much of a stink about this, because the school district has fired him. That’s case closed, folks!

But it certainly raises the question of why Ward Churchill, speaking on the far-out idiot left, could say insanely offensive things, and was defended as having simply exercised his freedom of speech, and there was just no way he ought to be fired from a public school for what he said, yet Winston McCuen voices something from the far-out idiot right (on a website, not, apparently, in the classroom), and my left-wing friends, many of whom defended Mr Churchill and his public expressions, are up in arms.

From what I understand, Mr Churchill still has his job; Mr McCuen, placed on “administrative leave” and not welcomed back for next year (that’s what passes for “fired” in the real world) does not.