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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."
Political correctness is only a guideline and nothing more. To raise it to the height of the deafening silence heard nowadays is far too much of a "benefit of the doubt."
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."
Political correctness is only a guideline and nothing more. To raise it to the height of the deafening silence heard nowadays is far too much of a "benefit of the doubt."
I absolutely disagree!
Political Correctness has become an operative mandate among MOST Americans. Especially liberals.
It was PC that turned Paula Deen into minced meat.
PC that almost got Phil Robertson and Duck Dynasty shot down.
And PC which caused the CEO of Mozilla to lose his connection to that job and that company.
It is our new 11th Commandment.
Thou shalt not speak except Politically Correctly.
PC is all about "shutting up opposing voices, slandering any with opposing ideas."
Exactly, and character assassination of the living and of the dead.
Just another load of bullshit from the Queen of Crap. Oh, and if you want an example of the muzzling of the voices of opposition just listen to the conservatives screaming "LIBERAL MEDIA! LIBERAL MEDIA!"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.
Mozilla had the right morally, ethically, and legally to tell the CEO to shut up or get out. He chose the latter: his right to do so.
Far right wing nuts, particularly the social religious conservatives, are doing their best to shut down criticism of them.
Not surprising. The criticism is just.
Mozilla had the right morally, ethically, and legally to tell the CEO to shut up or get out. He chose the latter: his right to do so.
Far right wing nuts, particularly the social religious conservatives, are doing their best to shut down criticism of them.
Not surprising. The criticism is just.
Mozilla had the right morally, ethically, and legally to tell the CEO to shut up or get out. He chose the latter: his right to do so.
Far right wing nuts, particularly the social religious conservatives, are doing their best to shut down criticism of them.
Not surprising. The criticism is just.
Characterization is your forte? Everybody just shut the fuck up. If the right is nuts the left is nuts too. That's why we should all shut the fuck up. amirite.
Conservatives could make a valid point here if they could demonstrate that conservative colleges and universities are much less politically correct - as in conservative political correctness - than are the so-called liberal schools.
Can you?
They actually tend to be politically correct in exactly the same way as liberal universities.
I'm sure that was going to be PoliticalChic's next thread, since she prides herself in her objective allegiance to the facts.
political correctness
There is no such thing as political correctness, its a myth contrived by the right in an effort to justify the ignorance and hate often exhibited by social conservatives.
Only government has the power to place restrictions on free speech, using arrest, detention, and punitive sanctions not private individuals, organizations, or private society in general; and of course government is prohibited from restricting free speech if such restrictions are offensive to the Constitution.
Consequently, the conservative notion that opposing voices are being muzzled is ignorant partisan nonsense. Conservatives remain at liberty to express their ignorance and hate, just as private individuals, organizations, or private society in general are at liberty to express their opposition to the ignorance and hate advocated by conservatives and these admonishments by private society in no way constitute political correctness or muzzling opposing voices.
In the free marketplace of ideas, therefore, its simply a matter of private society not buying the garbage the right has to sell.
Conservatives have zealously embraced victimology mostly because they have run out of excuses to explain why conservatism is dying.
Of course the reason conservatism is dying in this generation is because the conservatism of almost every generation dies, felled by progress, because progress in the long run is invincible; conservatism is nothing more than a series of barriers in the road that have to be removed.
So victimology becomes the last excuse. Losing elections is tyranny. Losing in the Court is the result of demonic anti-constitutional forces having overtaken the SCOTUS.
The liberal media is a conspiracy against them.
The colleges and universities are a conspiracy against them.
and on and on...waaa.
If it doesn't exist why the fuck do universities have speech codes?
Are speech codes limited to liberal universities?
Does government money only go to liberal universities?
They actually tend to be politically correct in exactly the same way as liberal universities.
I'm sure that was going to be PoliticalChic's next thread, since she prides herself in her objective allegiance to the facts.
Absolutely.
I have a proprietary pride in veracity.
... Anyway, bring your ideas forward and we'll beat the hell out of them but you are welcome to do so. ...
Bring forth, so I may shred your sacred cows like a wood chipper.
Uniformed Voters is PC for Stupid, which most American voters are.
No need to. I know Americans are generally stupid.Speak for yourself, stupid.Uniformed Voters is PC for Stupid, which most American voters are.
They didn't do that in my day, and it's a terrible idea. It's not pride, I earned my stripes.It is beyond laughable that someone with your limitations would think so highly of himself. I'll bet you got a trophy for coming in last every time, and now look what it's done to you.... Anyway, bring your ideas forward and we'll beat the hell out of them but you are welcome to do so. ...
Bring forth, so I may shred your sacred cows like a wood chipper.
No need to. I know Americans are generally stupid.Speak for yourself, stupid.Uniformed Voters is PC for Stupid, which most American voters are.
They didn't do that in my day, and it's a terrible idea. It's not pride, I earned my stripes.It is beyond laughable that someone with your limitations would think so highly of himself. I'll bet you got a trophy for coming in last every time, and now look what it's done to you.... Anyway, bring your ideas forward and we'll beat the hell out of them but you are welcome to do so. ...
Bring forth, so I may shred your sacred cows like a wood chipper.
Not in the slightest. Stupid Americans think most the Americans are terrific, especially if they vote the same way. The fact that most of them don't have the brains God gave a goat never occurs to them.You've only demonstrated that description applies to yourself, personally.No need to. I know Americans are generally stupid.Speak for yourself, stupid.
