We read:
"When asked about his play on the last day at Augusta, Woods replied: "I putted atrociously today. Once I got on the greens, I was a spaz."
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"Spaz" is of course derived from the now little-used word "spastic" -- a disorder now generally referred to as "cerebral palsy". So Woods had to apologize for using what is after all a common term. And seeing he was referring to himself it is hard to see that he was insulting anyone. And are we pretending that people with cerebral palsy are NOT clumsy??
Black Hate-Speech?
It sounds like it. Black comedian Dave Chapelle was recently reported as saying:
"The bottom line was, white people own everything, and where can a black person go and be himself or say something that's familiar to him and not have to explain or apologize?"
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You'd never think those were the words of someone whose show had made him so rich that he could walk away from a $50 million deal. It would surely give even a Leftist problems to argue that he had been "discriminated against" or "oppressed". And can you imagine the howls of protest if a white person had said anything like this?
The Predictable Leftist Censorship is Happening in Venezuela
Leftists are so predictable in their hatred of free speech. The far-Leftist Hugo Chavez has not been in charge of Venezuela for long but he is running true to form. Some excerpts from a review of the situation there:
"New, so-called insult laws .... have already blunted some of the harshest criticisms of the government among opinion writers (and) created a pernicious climate of self-censorship among reporters that has begun to affect the quality of coverage and public debate"... The new restrictions have come into force in a context of growing intolerance of dissent by the government... Virtually every prominent public official in Venezuela is now legally entitled to seek redress for any speech or text deemed offensive or disrespectful, whether true or not.... By enshrining the ability to challenge opinion in court with heavy fines for offenders, the law seems aimed at creating a climate inimical to the airing of any critical opinion.
Hector Faundez, a media law expert at the Universidad Central in Caracas, points out that the kinds of attacks that Tony Blair faced daily during his campaign for reelection as British prime minister would be illegal in Venezuela. A televised debate between Chavez and his election opponents seems impossible because television stations would be liable for any offensive statements uttered by the challengers about Chavez. The reverse, however, would not be true."
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