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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, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 26 2018, @02:18AM (4 children)
Expecting any braindead tosser who would say "left-leaning people DO want to listen to commies" with a straight face to even read your post, let alone understand it, is futile. You're telling the truth, but you're doing the equivalent of throwing cherry pies into a black hole hoping that if only you feed it enough, it'll stop being so hungry. It's a shame, isn't it? Pearls before swine and all that.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 26 2018, @04:12AM (1 child)
You should stare into the abyss while tossing those cherry pies, you tosser.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 26 2018, @07:10PM
Okay, just hold still a moment...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 26 2018, @05:25PM (1 child)
Maybe it is futile, but the other forums I know consist of people shouting past each other instead of talking to each other. That's if there are contrary opinions present at all, because many have devolved into tedious echo chambers. Likewise in real life people have begun to separate themselves socially the way they have online.
I hope I don't have to convince anyone here how dangerous that is.
So it might be the case that people who say things like Runaway said don't actually converse with anyone who doesn't believe as they do, and don't have the opportunity to get information outside of caricatures. I chimed in accordingly.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 26 2018, @07:10PM
Good of you to do, and I do the same for the same reasons...but, man, it feels like beating your head against a wall sometimes :/
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...