FROM THE "WE'RE ALL GOING INSANE" FILES

Tory MP apologizes for language (Canadian Press, May 21st, 2005)

Conservative MP Steven Fletcher has apologized for referring to Japanese soldiers as "Japs" and "bastards" at a convention.

The Winnipeg politician's admission of using "language that was inappropriate" came Saturday after some Japanese-Canadians and Canadian veterans said they were upset about the MP's remarks.

Hayden Kent, president of the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans Unit 283, said he was taken aback by Mr. Fletcher's comments at an annual veterans' convention in Winnipeg last weekend.

According to Mr. Kent and two other sources, the rookie MP was describing his grandfather's wartime experience when he said "the Japs were bastards."[...]

Keiko Miki, past-president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians, had said she was surprised and hurt by Fletcher's comments.

It isn’t easy to guage this kind of thing. Either it is a harbinger of a frightening, totalitarian political correctness or an indication that secular liberals are in decline and now resemble the delicate Victorian ladies who put stockings on piano legs and fainted if anyone used a big, big “D”.