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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: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:39PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:39PM (#658132) Journal

    It is worse when it is a gang of whites!

    Now, let's look at the actual story from the actual link:

    This ill-advised plot involved Parrott spying on his wife and Heimbach meeting in the Parrotts’ trailer at midnight from atop a box, which was apparently unsuitable for his overall mass and promptly broke. Parrott told police that a confrontation ensued in which his wife and Heimbach assaulted him, with Heimbach choking him unconscious at least twice. Brooke Heimbach (Heimbach’s spouse) also said that Heimbach attacked her during the incident.

    No gang attack there.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @12:01AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @12:01AM (#658142)

    Sorry, less than clear. What I meant to type:

    It is worse when it is a gang of whites! Probably your ownrelatives!

    A whole gang of four White Nationalists! Worse.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 26 2018, @03:38AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 26 2018, @03:38AM (#658211) Journal
      More like a gang of one. And since he beat up his webmaster, we'll hear no more of it save in the courts of law where it shall grow in the telling.