Has political correctness made everyone — most particularly our city and provincial politicians — lose all shred of common sense?

It seems so, considering Black Lives Matter TO is not only set to be honoured at the July 3 Pride parade but has also been selected to receive City Hall’s William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations — one of five yearly Access, Equity and Human Rights awards given to leftist activists selected by other leftists who make their livelihood largely off government grants.

A city report — penned by Uzma Shakir, director of equity, diversity and human rights — says the award (which needs approval by Mayor John Tory’s executive committee Tuesday) is being given to Black Lives Matter TO because they “have created, articulated and enacted a new vision of responding to inequities experienced by black people ... in Toronto.”

Pride’s organizers claim largely the same for bestowing their honour — namely that the group has made headlines by “calling for the elimination of carding, seeking justice for killings and collecting race-based data and combating anti-blackness.”

I have no problem with their message.

The police need to be held to account for their handling of shooting deaths and the SIU must be pushed to be open about how they conduct their investigations. Otherwise, we will be left to believe that the SIU exists simply to protect their own.

But their message, too often involves shrill, inflammatory comments, hateful tweets and questionable tactics such as bringing their anti-police brutality message to the front lawn of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s home April 1.

There are groups in this city that have been speaking out for years about police killings, black-on-black crime or shootings of innocent black victims in impoverished neighbourhoods and the targeting of black youth by police.

That’s why you can forgive Black Lives Matter TO for screaming loudly. After all, it did get Wynne’s attention.

But should screaming voices delivering an often hateful message — that gets them on the 6 p.m. news or headlines in the leftist media — be rewarded with Pride honours and City Hall awards while other groups have been working tirelessly behind the scenes for years to effect change?

What I reject is how Black Lives Matters has made it their mission to publicly smear every cop as a racist, using inflammatory us versus them rhetoric.

Take this May 18 tweet directed at Toronto police chief Mark Saunders for apparently not agreeing to meet with them in public: “Stop lying on ur ppl and do something ffs. Can only imagine what else you can’t be trusted with.”

Saunders did not want to comment but Toronto Police Service (TPS) spokesman Mark Pugash said the chief did offer twice to meet the group.

In response to the SIU decision not to charge a Peel cop in the September 2014 shooting death of Jermaine Carby, Black Lives Matter said this on May 13: “After murdering Brother Carby, cops continued to guard him with his weapon in case he was ‘playing possum’.”

Who can forget BLM co-founder Yusra Kholgali’s Feb. 9 tweet which landed her in some hot water: “Plz Allah give me strength to not cuss/kill these men and white folks out here today.”

Or consider the website of BLM’s other founder, Janaya Kahn, on which she advocates for the end of “Hotepery” — essentially a “hyper masculine patriarchal narrative that depends on the subjugation of black women and the eradication of black queer and trans people.”

And what about that Pride parade that will get nearly $600,000 from three levels of government this year? That doesn’t include the in-kind policing of the event and post-event clean-up, which amounts to $300,000 or more.

This year Pride officials — while celebrating a group that has repeatedly called all cops murderers — will expect beefed-up policing at the parade post-Orlando.

Like I said, it’s all political correctness gone mad.

SLevy@postmedia.com