At a tangent to the Damore issue, on to the more general issue of conservatives claiming a feeling of being discriminated against; There was this expression th

At a tangent to the Damore issue, on to the more general issue of conservatives claiming a feeling of being discriminated against; There was this expression that got a bit popular during the early days of OWS: if someone tells you they’re thirsty, don’t tell them they’re not. Give them a glass of water. I’ve heard concerns about self-censorship from enough actual real-life people, as opposed to Fox News blowhards, that I have to assume there’s at least a seed of truth to that. Something something lived experiences. We can disagree as to why these people feel that way, and whether that’s a good thing (I’m perfrxtly happy with Nazis feeling like they’re a hated group, for instance), but maybe we should be respectful enough of people not to tell them they’re not living what they’re telling us they’re living. That said, so much of conservative social policy has become thinly veiled discrimination of one sort or another - or is so closely associated with it that one can’t hear one without thinking the other - that it’s difficult to separate out views that need to be protected and views that need to be censored, without vilifying “conservative” in general.