Avi K – some of your points are good, others maybe not.
As you note, words matter. In current usage, calling something “PC” automatically indicates that you disapprove of it, scorn it, and generally think it’s inaccurate and ridiculous. I’m curious as to why you think that phrase used by the YWN editors is so deserving of disapproval.
I’ve just read your other post, so it puzzles me that you named this thread the way you did.
Yes, we care more for our own, but that doesn’t mean we don’t care at all for others, and sometimes in the current atmosphere we have to emphasize that.
And yes, I agree that it isn’t fair to emphasize that some malefactor is frum when it has no bearing on whatever he did. However, you should realize that since we say we are the am hanivchar that other people expect us to live up to that status, so it is more “newsworthy” if a frum yid doesn’t.
Shabbat Shalom to all.