PC insanity, part gazillion

Paula Deen has been in the news recently.  Not being a fan, the only impression I had was that it was for allegedly making some sort of racist remark. And now as a result, the companies that sold her cookbooks or had other commercial dealings with her have said they'll end their business relationships with her.

I was curious as to what she'd done to cause the Establishment to destroy her career. Turns out that in a deposition last month, Deen related that in 1986 she was working as a bank teller and was held up at gunpoint by a black man.  She went on to say that when she went home that evening and told her husband--in the privacy of their home--about the event, she used "the N-word" to describe the robber.

In a sane world, this would be a non-event.  I can understand the PC police coming down on people who make racist comments today or recently but come on:  twenty-seven years ago??

Then I think:  Wait, this is the same type of thinking that demands that our soldiers in the field not touch copies of the Koran unless they're wearing gloves.

Insanity.