From the Vox:
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: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @08:24PM (2 children)
"a communist, a homosexual, an opponent of all religion, a racist, and a person who favors replacing the elected government with a military coup"
Sure, now a communist, a homosexual and opponent of religion and coupist gets to speak. That's 4/5 compared to the 1/5 of the olden days, but now that everyone else not in those 4/5 groups is a racist, how does the math go again? From one extreme to another, and how do the extremes work in reality?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Bot on Sunday March 25 2018, @09:02PM
> From one extreme to another
You of course recall that the above movement, repeated, is most efficient if you want to break things.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Monday March 26 2018, @03:37AM
"a communist, a homosexual, an opponent of all religion, a racist, and a person who favors replacing the elected government with a military coup"...
how do the extremes work in reality?
Who the hell knows?... I just wish somebody would finish the joke
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..