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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: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 26 2018, @02:22AM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday March 26 2018, @02:22AM (#658189) Journal

    Don't confuse economic left/right with social left/right. One of those is the communism---laissez-faire axis, and the other is the libertarian---authoritarian axis. You're trying to smear socially-left people with the brush that is (rightfully!) used to tar the hard-authoritarian collectivists.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @12:02AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @12:02AM (#658713)

    You're trying to smear socially-left people with the brush that is (rightfully!) used to tar the hard-authoritarian collectivists.

    No, I was not. I am myself a left leaning liberal, one who is disgusted with the far-left labelling people with center left views as "fascist". Liberals can not be fascists because they are not Marxists. [spectator.co.uk]

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 27 2018, @02:10AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @02:10AM (#658749) Journal

      So ignore the nutbars. Most Christians ignore Westboro, most feminists ignore the "PiV is rape!" crowd, and you can ignore the frothy fringes.

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