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No, I don't think so. But my (biased) view of the left is that they want to actually control and curate speech via censorship, safe spaces, "hate speech" laws (
by ythn 10y ago
No, I don't think so. But my (biased) view of the left is that they want to actually control and curate speech via censorship, safe spaces, "hate speech" laws (like UK), political correctness agendas, stereotyping (painting all religious people as bigoted), etc. I view the latter things as an attack on my free speech. People should have the right to say hurtful things without being thrown in jail.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoI'd be interested to read a history of how this became the right's rallying cry. I mean "safe spaces". Of all the problems facing our world today, how did having a place for students to go and chill out on bean bags become a rallying cry. Why this obsession with student activitsts in general, who as far as I can tell have been caricatured as out of touch poseurs for literally decades without it escalating into a full on culture war. Do people really not see the irony of complaining about political correctness when stats generated by government departments are being discounted as "fake news" by the president? From the outside it really does seem like insanity, but I have to assume people literally believe these things to be important for some reason.
- fuzzybeard 10y agoI'd say it's the natural reaction to extremes like this on college campuses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S3yMzEee18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S3yMzEee18