By Jim Fisher

This administration has done it again. The Department of labor has issued a directive to address workplace discrimination. Now it’s how to address people without using the pronouns him or her, for if you do you could possibly be discriminating against someone.

Let me tell you something: I discriminate every day! And there are a lot of people and things that I discriminate against.  It’s a choice that I make and I do it all the time.  I discriminate between right and wrong. I have to make choices;do I go along with the crowd or do I discriminate and choose an alternative different from everyone else. I choose my own way because I discriminate against activities a certain group might make. That is especially true when choosing a political party. And in recent years I will do anything I can to discriminate against one of those parties.The party of political correctness, perpetrated profoundly by our current administration, they have changed the meaning of common words to be something undesirable. Like discrimination. The Webster definition of discriminate is: to notice and understand that one thing is different from another thing: to recognize a difference between things. I like to think that I have enough intelligence to make the right choice when a decision has to be made and in order to make that choice I have to recognize the difference of what is best for the circumstance.  They want to automatically assume it means we have bad opinions about groups of people. Well In some cases that would be correct. Them!It used to be that a person who can discriminate was a good attribute, someone who can see a difference in some thing or someone was a desirable characteristic. Someone that does notice and understand that one thing is different from another.

There is one group that I discriminate openly for and color is a very important part of that choice, because to me nothing is cooler than a red convertible on a warm summer day.

Jim Fisher has lived on a small farm outside of Hudson for 30 years. Jim has been married to Jayne for 36 years. Together they have raised two daughters.  (no grandchildren). Jim has served on the Unit Five Board of Education. Jim works with the McLean County Tea Party.

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