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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: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday March 26 2018, @02:15AM (9 children)
College students have traditionally been left-wing, but the people leaving high school now have taken a hard turn to the right.
They have?
The recent anti-gun demonstrations led by high school students seems to indicate that that generation is not at all hard-right. I think there's a healthy number of right-wingers in that age group, just because high school kids tend to follow their parents and the right-wingers are the ones having more kids (the urban liberals are having few or none), though kids frequently change their political orientation once they get to college and spend at least a couple years there.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeVilla on Monday March 26 2018, @03:17AM (8 children)
This kind of irks me.
My kids said they were told they could go outside for 17 minutes ... or they could sit in class for a few moments of silence. Most kids took the "get-out-of-class" card. A few said they didn't want to be part of an "anti-gun" protest. They were told it wasn't "anti-gun", but rather it was to honor the students who died. The next day I hear one of my Senators going on about how our kids have show they want her to push for more gun regulations.
I don't even want to address the gun debate with this. I wish people would not us my kids as political pawns.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday March 26 2018, @04:06AM (1 child)
Yeah, really. These "protests" are inorganic contrived Soros-funded corporate super-planned and organized bullshit just like the pussy-hat stuff.
My guess why younger students are being emphasized this time around is because the establishment have learned from the election that adults young and old are capable of finding no-bullshit news sources and deciding for themselves what to believe rather than resort to letting manufactured realities guide their decisions.
Younger kids are, too, but Soros' organizations don't know it yet. Surely younger kids are aware of their carefully-chosen spokespeople who are basically crisis actors or otherwise spotlight-hungry weenies seeking to gain from the tragic murder of students. The ones who even acknowledge the event do so for virtue-signal points but if they can get out of school and have a shot at all that good pussy, then they'll say whatever their teachers want to hear.
As a high-schooler I was pro-gun but you bet your ass I would have taken any opportunity to ditch school, especially when there were opportunities for socializing and pussy-chasing. You all will hate me for admitting this, but I even went to a funeral of somebody I didn't know (never talked to them or knew any of their friends and family) just to get out of school.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @06:17AM
Hating you for that would require being shocked you would do such a thing.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @05:50AM (2 children)
It beats using your kids for target practice... which is kind of the point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @10:58AM
Some kids, maybe.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 26 2018, @03:46PM
So schools are going to start shooting kids, if their demands aren't met?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 26 2018, @10:56AM
I doubt it will make you feel much better, but the kids aren't pawns. They are merely props. Align all the props on a stage, some high muckity muck takes advantage of the photoop, then the kids are sent back to class - out of sight, and out of mind.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Monday March 26 2018, @03:17PM
I wasn't talking about the 17 minute thing at schools, I was talking about the protests on Saturday in cities across the country. There's no school on Saturday.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @02:54AM
don't allow it, ffs! think of the godfather when he slaps that sniveling one. be a man!