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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: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 26 2018, @02:24AM (7 children)
So if I get this right, the groups that have historically shat all over everyone else are now shitting themselves at the prospect of being shat all over? Holy shit! What a concept!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Disagree) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 26 2018, @04:10AM (5 children)
Your post sounds like you understand that the left is shitting on conservatives today - and all you can say is "Tough noogies, what went around, comes around."
So, "Reverse discrimination" is fine. You don't want justice, you want revenge? Got it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 26 2018, @07:13PM (4 children)
Well, no. I want justice. But sometimes, before there's justice, there's retribution, and they're not the same thing. It's wrong, but at the same time I can't be too upset over it. If nothing else, karma is a bitch, for every action there's an equal but opposite reaction, yadda yadda yadda...you get the idea.
You, of course, have been waiting for someone to say something like this so you can go "AHA! See?! SEE?! I *AM* being persecuted!!!11111one." Well, keep crying those big fat buttery tears for me, snowflake.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 27 2018, @01:30AM (3 children)
You're justifying that whole 'sins of the fathers' thing, right? More, you're helping the "other side" to justify violence on their side. And, ultimately, people will die. But, that doesn't upset you at all, does it?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 27 2018, @02:08AM (2 children)
No, Runaway. I just know how history works. This is that swinging pendulum people like to go on about. I want to just hole up somewhere and wait for this shit to blow over, but that is not and never has been realistic. Stop your bitching.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 27 2018, @02:30AM (1 child)
Don't be surprised if that pendulum slips off of it's pivot point, and runs people over. Bitching? Like hell - I'm warning. And, remember, I gave warning that Trump was going to steal the election out from under the Demopublicans. Maybe that's because I understand human nature better than you do? I'm still wondering who in hell the ruling class is going to offer the next time around . . .
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:48AM
Hey, I knew Trump was likely going to win too. My reaction on hearing that he was running was "...fuck. Sixth sign of the apocalypse. The bastard's gonna win, too, because he's a con-man and most Americans are idiots. Fuuuuuuck meeeee. Welp, didn't make it to Canada, guessilldie.png"
What's funny is that you think Trump is anything other than establishment. If he is, to any degree, it's purely because his own narcissism gets in the way. He's the curious case of an establishment shill who's too fucking dumb to advance the agenda.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @10:54AM
Nice move - you just broadly labelled certain groups to action historically understood to be bad without any data or fact and in the same sentence justified your own bad behavior.