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Everything We Think about the Political Correctness Debate is Wrong

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

aristarchus writes:

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: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:49PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:49PM (#658108)

    You mean Brownback's Brokeback Mountain Saloon in Kansas? Those fey cowboy Republicans!

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  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by Arik on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:57PM (3 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:57PM (#658114) Journal
    No, he means some place that actually exists, in reality, not in some ridiculous Hollywood fantasy.

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:22PM (#658121)

      Brownback's Kansas is a real place. And I am pretty sure all Kansas Cowboys are a little queer, at least. The Wheat farmers are quite strange just by their selves.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:59AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:59AM (#658374)

      No familiarity with Annie Proulx's short story that was the basis for the movie, I take it? Ah, Wyoming!

      • (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday March 26 2018, @12:33PM

        by Arik (4543) on Monday March 26 2018, @12:33PM (#658386) Journal
        You know what it means when a movie says 'based on a real story?'

        It means it's fiction.
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