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> This is still trying to force a private institution to conform to your wishes. I'm curious what your opinion is of our current advocacy campaigns attempting

> This is still trying to force a private institution to conform to your wishes. I'm curious what your opinion is of our current advocacy campaigns attempting to "force" tech companies to hire more women, or "force" movies and TV to to have more characters who are ethnic minorities. > The HRC, GLAAD, and etc never demand that Liberty University (socially conservative institution) let say Dan Savage speak at their university. Maybe they should! They'd certainly be well within their rights. Although I'd be interested to learn more about a situation where someone like Savage was prevented from speaking at Liberty University, as I hadn't heard of that.

norea-armozel 11y ago
>I'm curious what your opinion is of our current advocacy campaigns attempting to "force" tech companies to hire more women, or "force" movies and TV to to have more characters who are ethnic minorities. There's a huge difference between writing a crappy article on Kotaku and some jerk threatening to dogpile Twitter w/ false SEC/FTC reports. This has been the crap that's been circulating since NRx/alt-right and GG reared its collective fugly head. And they often operate under false pretenses of "free speech." >Maybe they should! They'd certainly be well within their rights. Or maybe they know something certain free speech advocates refuse to disclose: institutions are largely fossils of their time. Trying to convert an evangelical university to their cause is as Quixotic as you can get. >Although I'd be interested to learn more about a situation where someone like Savage was prevented from speaking at Liberty University, as I hadn't heard of that. Because social conservatives know what the believe and will exercise it to its fullest within the law (and sometimes outside of it)? Just saying. So you can stump for a cause that does not need protection (considering the strength of EFF and the ACLU on these matters) or you all can admit that maybe just maybe being PC isn't all that bad. And maybe just maybe a bigot should be freely called a bigot and jeered by the general audience whether or not John Cleese wants that to happen. Guess what? The Marx Brothers dealt with jeers and rotten tomatoes thrown their way so I'm sure modern comedians can deal with mean tweets and crappy Kotaku hit pieces.

norea-armozel 11y ago

>I'm curious what your opinion is of our current advocacy campaigns attempting to "force" tech companies to hire more women, or "force" movies and TV to to have more characters who are ethnic minorities. There's a huge difference between writing a crappy article on Kotaku and some jerk threatening to dogpile Twitter w/ false SEC/FTC reports. This has been the crap that's been circulating since NRx/alt-right and GG reared its collective fugly head. And they often operate under false pretenses of "free speech." >Maybe they should! They'd certainly be well within their rights. Or maybe they know something certain free speech advocates refuse to disclose: institutions are largely fossils of their time. Trying to convert an evangelical university to their cause is as Quixotic as you can get. >Although I'd be interested to learn more about a situation where someone like Savage was prevented from speaking at Liberty University, as I hadn't heard of that. Because social conservatives know what the believe and will exercise it to its fullest within the law (and sometimes outside of it)? Just saying. So you can stump for a cause that does not need protection (considering the strength of EFF and the ACLU on these matters) or you all can admit that maybe just maybe being PC isn't all that bad. And maybe just maybe a bigot should be freely called a bigot and jeered by the general audience whether or not John Cleese wants that to happen. Guess what? The Marx Brothers dealt with jeers and rotten tomatoes thrown their way so I'm sure modern comedians can deal with mean tweets and crappy Kotaku hit pieces.