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posted by mrpg on Sunday March 25 2018, @08:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the true-or-false dept.

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


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:17PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:17PM (#658095) Journal

    Nothing funnier than the knockout game, is there?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Elm09DIqRY [youtube.com]

    Lest you miss the point, the knockout game is a current issue. The burning crosses and lynchings are history. The last person who was lynched for being black died before most Soylentils were born. The last person to die due to the knockout game was much more recent:

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/knockout-game-suspect-charged-hate-crime/story?id=20992590 [go.com] Probably doesn't count, because he's just a Jew.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teens-charged-killing-hoboken-man-violent-game-knockout-authorities-article-1.1463380 [nydailynews.com] Probably doesn't count either, because he was just some homeless guy.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/30/new-knockout-game-incidents-leaves-us-residents-terrified.html [foxnews.com] Again, these two people probably don't count, because one was just a New Yorker, and the other was just a woman.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/76-year-brooklyn-woman-latest-knockout-game-assault/story?id=21058636 [go.com] Just isolated incidents, right?

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:36PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:36PM (#658129) Homepage Journal

    So many people say the Knockout Game is Fake News. It's not Fake News, they're Fake News. It happened in 2013 so many times -- thank you for the wonderful links -- and it happened in 2017. It happened to Richard Spencer -- good looking guy, one of our beautiful white nationalists -- during my inauguration. Trust me, for 2021 he'll be getting an invitation. We're having big problems with our alt-left and our BIE, our black identity extremists. Have you noticed, so many times it's the blacks playing the Knockout Game? But nobody asks why. The only way to deal with it is toughness. The sentences are much too light. Believe me, if we started using the death penalty a lot more, we'd have a lot less crime. The Central Park Five. They got very light sentences, and now they're walking the streets again. Disgusting!

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 28 2018, @10:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 28 2018, @10:33PM (#659726)

    > The burning crosses and lynchings are history.

    Two years ago to the day that a burning cross was found in Lawrence County in 2016, another one was found on a state road sign on Mississippi 27 just over the state line.

      (March 2018 [clarionledger.com])

    A southern Iowa high school said Wednesday it had disciplined several students who appeared in a photo on social media wearing white hoods and waving a Confederate flag next to a burning cross.

    At least one of the five people pictured is holding what appears to be a rifle.

    (circa September 2017 [yahoo.com])

    The white teacher who told a black student his classmates would form a mob and lynch him if he didn’t focus will not be suspended or fired.

    (December 2017 [cincinnati.com]) (FoxNews link [foxnews.com])