Sensitivity Run Amuck Again

A high school choir in Riverside, California was asked to stop singing Christmas carols during an ice skating show featuring Olympic medalist Sasha Cohen out of concern the skater would be offended because she's Jewish.

Choir director Staci Della-Rocco said she complied with the request when a city staff member approached her along with a police officer "because a policeman told me to stop. I didn't want to have a big old huge scene in front of my kids."

How dare they offend Sasha Cohen. Sasha must be deeply offended, right? Wrong. Sasha Cohen gave no complaint or indication that she was offended. In fact, her web site lists the Christmas Tree lighting ceremonies she is scheduled to be present at.

Instead, it was an idiotic staff member who on her own thinks she knows what Sasha Cohen is feeling, who thinks she knows what's best for everyone else when it comes to sensitivity. The irony is that the patronizing staff member is the insensitive one. Extrapolate this into State & Federal do-gooder legislators who think they know what's best for the rest of us & you can see where this whole "sensitivity" & multicultural awareness takes us - into a fool's paradise.

And we think the police officer should be retrained so he or she learns what is & is not within the law enforcement domain.