Time and again, this essential truth about comes up: Liberalism is about closing down debate, shutting up opposing voices, slandering any with opposing ideas.
It's euphemistically known as "political correctness."
1. The feelings-based nature of liberalism helps explain why people on the Left are much more likely to claim to be offended when faced with which they differ. Not, I disagree, but I am offended!
When are people offended? When their feelings are hurt.
A pro-choice woman is offended by the pro-life position, ostensibly because her feelings are more worthwhile than the objective worth of a human fetus.
Political correctness is also based on not hurting peoples feelings.
Complaint about Senator Joseph McCarthy often center around how abusive he was to communists .again, feelings.
Dennis Prager
And now, this:
2. "Hypersensitive students and professors all over the country are about to score another victory for political correctness if they succeed in their mission to normalize the use of trigger warnings, which are intended to protect people from taking part in class discussions and media that might offend them.
3. Trigger warnings are most commonly attached to online news ....warn readers that the post contains specific, offensive content. An article about sexual violence, for instance, might come with a trigger warning for rape victims.
4. ...censorship-inclined activists are now eager to force professors to attach trigger warnings to their syllabi.
Some students and professors argue that nearly everything should come with a trigger warning, wrote Laurie Essig, a professor of psychology at Middlebury College and a contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
a. The Great Gatsby? Trigger warning: suicide, domestic abuse, graphic violence.
5. ....by creating trigger warnings for their students, professors can help to create a safe space for their students one that fosters positive and compassionate intellectual discussion within the collegiate classroom.
6. Students at the University of California-Santa Barbara are doing their best to make their PC dreams a reality. The student government passed a resolution that urged administrators to adopt mandatory trigger warnings as official university policy last month.
7. ....some liberals are condemning it in no uncertain terms. The Nations Michelle Goldberg called the pro-censorship agenda of the PC crowd left-wing anti-liberalism,:
"In the 1960s, longtime socialist intellectuals were horrified by the anarchic energies of the new left. Then some of those new leftists reached middle age and watched, aghast, as new speech codes proliferated on college campuses during the first iteration of political correctness. I was in college then and am now in my thirties, which means its my turn to be dismayed by a growing left-wing tendency towards censoriousness and hair-trigger offense."
Trigger warnings: New wave of political correctness hits campuses | The Daily Caller
8. "Oberlin College has published an official document on triggers, advising faculty members to "be aware of racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, ableism, and other issues of privilege and oppression," to remove triggering material when it doesn't "directly" contribute to learning goals....
a. Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," it states, is a novel that may "trigger readers who have experienced racism, colonialism, religious persecution, violence, suicide and more."
9. What began as a way of moderating Internet forums for the vulnerable and mentally ill now threatens to define public discussion both online and off. The trigger warning signals not only the growing precautionary approach to words and ideas in the university, but a wider cultural hypersensitivity to harm and a paranoia about giving offense.
10. Trigger warnings are presented as a gesture of empathy, but the irony is they lead only to more solipsism, an over-preoccupation with ones own feelingsmuch to the detriment of society as a whole."
Trigger Warnings Have Spread from Blogs to College Classes. That's Bad | New Republic
Liberals should take the warning in Oscar Wilde's famous 'two tragedies'
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
It's euphemistically known as "political correctness."
1. The feelings-based nature of liberalism helps explain why people on the Left are much more likely to claim to be offended when faced with which they differ. Not, I disagree, but I am offended!
When are people offended? When their feelings are hurt.
A pro-choice woman is offended by the pro-life position, ostensibly because her feelings are more worthwhile than the objective worth of a human fetus.
Political correctness is also based on not hurting peoples feelings.
Complaint about Senator Joseph McCarthy often center around how abusive he was to communists .again, feelings.
Dennis Prager
And now, this:
2. "Hypersensitive students and professors all over the country are about to score another victory for political correctness if they succeed in their mission to normalize the use of trigger warnings, which are intended to protect people from taking part in class discussions and media that might offend them.
3. Trigger warnings are most commonly attached to online news ....warn readers that the post contains specific, offensive content. An article about sexual violence, for instance, might come with a trigger warning for rape victims.
4. ...censorship-inclined activists are now eager to force professors to attach trigger warnings to their syllabi.
Some students and professors argue that nearly everything should come with a trigger warning, wrote Laurie Essig, a professor of psychology at Middlebury College and a contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
a. The Great Gatsby? Trigger warning: suicide, domestic abuse, graphic violence.
5. ....by creating trigger warnings for their students, professors can help to create a safe space for their students one that fosters positive and compassionate intellectual discussion within the collegiate classroom.
6. Students at the University of California-Santa Barbara are doing their best to make their PC dreams a reality. The student government passed a resolution that urged administrators to adopt mandatory trigger warnings as official university policy last month.
7. ....some liberals are condemning it in no uncertain terms. The Nations Michelle Goldberg called the pro-censorship agenda of the PC crowd left-wing anti-liberalism,:
"In the 1960s, longtime socialist intellectuals were horrified by the anarchic energies of the new left. Then some of those new leftists reached middle age and watched, aghast, as new speech codes proliferated on college campuses during the first iteration of political correctness. I was in college then and am now in my thirties, which means its my turn to be dismayed by a growing left-wing tendency towards censoriousness and hair-trigger offense."
Trigger warnings: New wave of political correctness hits campuses | The Daily Caller
8. "Oberlin College has published an official document on triggers, advising faculty members to "be aware of racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, ableism, and other issues of privilege and oppression," to remove triggering material when it doesn't "directly" contribute to learning goals....
a. Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," it states, is a novel that may "trigger readers who have experienced racism, colonialism, religious persecution, violence, suicide and more."
9. What began as a way of moderating Internet forums for the vulnerable and mentally ill now threatens to define public discussion both online and off. The trigger warning signals not only the growing precautionary approach to words and ideas in the university, but a wider cultural hypersensitivity to harm and a paranoia about giving offense.
10. Trigger warnings are presented as a gesture of empathy, but the irony is they lead only to more solipsism, an over-preoccupation with ones own feelingsmuch to the detriment of society as a whole."
Trigger Warnings Have Spread from Blogs to College Classes. That's Bad | New Republic
Liberals should take the warning in Oscar Wilde's famous 'two tragedies'
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
