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The Rise of “Bias Response Teams” on Campus
- neuro_imager 10y agoThis is the sort of idiocy that promotes the rise of demagogues like Trump.
- hashkb 10y agoThe article, or what it's describing?
- hulahoof 10y agoI think he meant description, I find the article to pretty accurately isolate the issues with this sort of mentality.
- intortus 10y agoI find demagogues like Trump (and his fans) love to blame people who possess sincerity and empathy for their own idiotic demagoguery.
- cocotino 10y agoAnd we attack Trump instead of the idiocy…
- drewrv 10y agoAttempts to blame "the left" on Trump are absurd. Republicans have been courting the racist vote for decades, it was only a matter of time before those elements took over the party.
- michaelbuddy 10y agoWhat does "courting the racist vote" mean? Because the most racist people I've ever met were always on the left. They do it in an underhanded way, as in assuming certain people based on color are unable to do things on their own and must be helped, resulting in dependence and the destruction of families. The left also will be racist towards other groups and denigrate them even when its their own color. Makes absolutely no sense. The party of self-determination, republicans, individual voters have always been about working hard, individualism, keep what you earn, support your own family and don't kill your babies. Who founded planned parenthood, what motives did they have on abortion and which party glorifies it? Which party wants it defunded because of abortion? Who is racist again?
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- paulddraper 10y agoAh, the age old question: Is "intolerance of intolerance" moral? I'm not sure the answer. I am sure that it's a lot easier to be tolerant of "good-thinking people, than bad-thinking people. Surely everyone can agree on that :)
- disposablename 10y agoPC Principal is real?!
- noonespecial 10y agoThat's why South Park works. It one great big reductio ad absurdum. Their whole formula is to detect a social trend and then amplify it into absurdity. It's telling that they are having a hard time staying out in front these days.
- reedlaw 10y agoThe very name of these teams implies at least three erroneous conceptions: 1. That the teams themselves are completely impartial. 2. That holding any sort of bias is wrong. 3. That we need to be protected from incidents of bias. Have the universities attempted to prove any of these ideas or is questioning prohibited?
- paulddraper 10y agoThese are their tenants rather than their conclusions. And arguing against the tenants of a belief system is likely fruitless.
- teslaberry 10y agointellectual bankruptcy seems to be highly correlated with financial bankruptcy risk for the entire modern college educational system. confetti money and free debt slavery coincides with confetti socialization and thought slavery.
- michaelbuddy 10y agoProblem when you set up teams like this, they need to find any and all alleged 'sleights' to justify their existence. This is why we now know the term microaggressions and cultural appropriation. And how a poster showing cartoon swimmers acting "cool" and "uncool" is called "super racist" because you know, physically harming people for the color of their skin only happens in the movies, so we have to call a clumsy graphic designer at the Red Cross a "super racist." Between campuses and media, it's basically a witch hunt to find the racist white male who sexually assaults. Title IX ensured that this would happen. The end result? Mother's are scaring their sons from going to college, from socializing with women. And basically masturbation to pornography has supplanted sexual activity with partners. Pretty sad state of affairs. Universities are suffering for it. It won't take much for tech schools trade school to redeem their worth and will be the go to destination for males. Universities are becoming the "finishing schools" for socialists now.