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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @01:30AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @01:30AM (#658171)

    The Democrats were done after Gettysburg, but they kept fighting for the "Lost Cause". Why? The only thing it could be is stupidity. They thought that if they could just keep fighting, their "point of view" would prevail.

    There is no point in rehashing it, other than to provide an "intellectual safe space" for Marxists too dumb to realize that they have lost, and that the ground has shifted under their feet.

    Fixed!

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday March 26 2018, @01:48AM (5 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday March 26 2018, @01:48AM (#658175) Journal

    You seem to have made an historical error. Perhaps you were thinking Confederates, many of whom were Democrats, and if they were not before the war, they certainly were after it, thanks to that Republican (former Free Soil Party) President! That is, until Tricky Dick Nixon got all the racists to leave the Democratic Party and become Republicans.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @01:58AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @01:58AM (#658179)

      Perhaps you were thinking Confederates, many of whom were Democrats,

      No, I already corrected your historical error but please do keep back peddling on the racist party [snopes.com] of the KKK that currently runs welfare plantations across the US. Fact!

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 26 2018, @02:21AM (3 children)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday March 26 2018, @02:21AM (#658187) Journal

        Your historical knowledge seems to end in the late 50s. After the civil rights act, the Democrats and Republicans neatly switched sides over the course of a few years with regard to which one was full of cross-burning lunatics.

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        • (Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday March 26 2018, @01:39PM

          by Thexalon (636) on Monday March 26 2018, @01:39PM (#658413)

          The first real rumblings of a racist revolt within the Democratic Party was when Strohm Thurmond formed the "Dixiecrats" and ran against Harry Truman in 1948. Why? Because Truman had desegregated the military. The racists got even more upset with Kennedy's backing of the Civil Rights Movement, and when Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act the racists were basically done with the Democrats and looking to bolt. So when Nixon actively embraced the "southern strategy", a.k.a. inviting the racists into the Republican Party, they had been primed for that move by the Democratic leaders ignoring them.

          As for how racist the Republican voters are now, in 2006 they ran a black candidate for governor in my state, and about 25% of the people who normally vote Republican voted for the white Democrat.

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        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:38PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:38PM (#658707)

          Your historical knowledge seems to end in the late 50s. After the civil rights act, the Democrats and Republicans neatly switched sides over the course of a few years with regard to which one was full of cross-burning lunatics.

          Ahh, so a Goldwater Girl [snopes.com] with a mentor like Robert Byrd [wikipedia.org] who called black kids "super predators" as recently as the mid '90s [thehill.com] is not a racist. Meanwhile, a lifelong democrat who became a republican president is racist? [snopes.com]

          The left embraced identity politics and the political flip happened again. They just haven't finished with the memo yet, they still think making absolutely everything about race makes them "unracist".

          • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 27 2018, @02:13AM

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @02:13AM (#658751) Journal

            Oh shit yes Hillary is a racist. Most wealthy people are, I find.

            That sure as hell doesn't mean the modern GOP is any less racist than it has been for the last 50-odd years. You WISH there had been a flip. What's really happened is both parties got worse, and now there really *isn't* a mainstream party that isn't at least somewhat racist.

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