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Many American pundits seem to firmly believe that the country stands at a precipice in which young, left-wing college students and recent graduates are the leading edge of a rising tide of illiberalism that comes in the form of “political correctness” and poses a clear and present danger to free speech and rational discourse.
[...] The alarm about student protesters, in other words, though not always mistaken about particular cases, is generally grounded in a completely mistaken view of the big-picture state of American society and public opinion, both on and off campus.
[...] Since the 1970s, the General Social Survey has posed a question about whether five hypothetical speakers should be allowed to give a speech in your community — a communist, a homosexual, an opponent of all religion, a racist, and a person who favors replacing the elected government with a military coup.
Justin Murphy of the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom aggregated trend data about all five kinds of speakers and found that public support for free expression has been generally rising
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @12:15AM (1 child)
Poor, poor conservatives! It must be so painful to be so mocked and reviled for being so stupid. It gets better!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @12:40AM
No, it doesn't get better, study some history. If you seriously think a 190lb male thug intimidating a 140lb female at a public meeting she had every legal right to attend is acceptable then you're a piece of shit! You really are a complete piece of shit aren't you? Hahaha!