Think before you…
I’m just going to say it. Are you guys serious? “Code of civility and conduct?” [“SH Council considers code of conduct after vice mayor’s ‘offensive’ remarks to resident,” Oct. 24, 2014] This is becoming very confusing. He says she is prejudiced against her own kind, and she says he is prejudiced because he accused her of prejudiced. Huh? First of all, let’s don’t forget we have this thing called the Constitution, which was written, in part, to guarantee us the right to freedom of speech. Second of all, how are we supposed to keep up with what is acceptable? Perhaps someone should come up with “A Handbook of Political Correctness Protocol.” Good luck with that! Thirdly, I think all of this is politically driven, and if it goes any further it will only serve to divide this city even more than it already is.
Lyn Hutchison
Signal Hill
An overlooked victim in the verbal clash between the Signal Hill vice mayor and the Signal Hill resident would appear to have been the English language. As quoted in your article, the vice mayor told the resident, “I think you are just prejudice [sic] against your own kind.” In the same article the resident is quoted as responding, “I don’t know anybody in 2014 who speaks like that other than people who are prejudice [sic] when they are accusing other people of being prejudice [sic].” Subject to myself being corrected, I believe that both speakers should have used the participle “prejudiced” rather than than the noun “prejudice.” Since the dispute involved a school, perhaps my observation is appropriate. Class is dismissed.
Jeremiah Flanigan
Long Beach
