Something I Read Today

[fauxmaha]

Identity beats analogy

Analogy beats reason

Reason beats nothing

[Marshall]

You got some splaining to do, Lucy.

[Deleted]

Anger Trumps Bush.

[majorminor]

Sounds like the bong hit version of rock, paper, scissors.

[millring]

But the Rook is still low trump.

[dradtke]

It must be right. It fits on a bumper sticker.

[millring]

observer.com/2015/06/the-pecking-disorder-social-justice-warriors-gone-wild/

[Village Idiot]

Jan 14, 2016 9:36:13 GMT -5 Marshall said:

You got some splaining to do, Lucy.

And about 15 pages to do it.

[Deleted]

Jan 14, 2016 10:58:02 GMT -5 millring said:

observer.com/2015/06/the-pecking-disorder-social-justice-warriors-gone-wild/

My, that 's awfully observant of The Observer. College campuses are very strange places these days. A few weeks back someone had no trouble getting 85 out of a hundred students, approached at Yale, to sign a petition to get rid of the first amendment. If these kids are our future, no wonder so many folks want to be well armed.         

[james]

More opinion.

thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/01/14/3737907/the-phony-debate-about-political-correctness/

[millring]

think progress.

[theevan]

Jan 14, 2016 15:00:13 GMT -5 james said:

More opinion.

thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/01/14/3737907/the-phony-debate-about-political-correctness/

Interesting article.

They couldn't be more wrong about the debate being phony, though. The fact that they label debate "phony" is tooooo ironic.

[james]

Jan 14, 2016 15:58:50 GMT -5 theevan said:

Jan 14, 2016 15:00:13 GMT -5 james said:

More opinion.

thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/01/14/3737907/the-phony-debate-about-political-correctness/

Interesting article.

They couldn't be more wrong about the debate being phony, though. The fact that they label debate "phony" is tooooo ironic.

I don't think they are saying all debate is phony. Beyond the headline, frequently a poor indicator of an article's contents, I think there is lots of food for thought.

Edit - perhaps you missed a 'the'.

[Fingerplucked]

Jan 14, 2016 16:32:04 GMT -5 james said:

Jan 14, 2016 15:58:50 GMT -5 theevan said:

Interesting article.

They couldn't be more wrong about the debate being phony, though. The fact that they label debate "phony" is tooooo ironic.

I don't think they are saying all debate is phony. Beyond the headline, frequently a poor indicator of an article's contents, I think there is lots of food for thought.

Edit - perhaps you missed a 'the'.

It’s a good article. And I think you’re right, James. From the last paragraph:

The end of the phony debate about political correctness will not be the end of the debate about political correctness. But it could be the beginning of something better.

The article covers a lot of ground, but one of the main takeaways that I got was the partisan use of the term “politically correct:"

“When it comes to repression on college campuses, there’s really no evidence that there’s some left-wing, politically correct attack on freedom of speech,” Wilson said. “In fact, there are many examples of efforts to repress left-wing speakers and left-wing faculty.” Most of the attacks on academic freedom, he explained, “especially the effective attacks, come from the right.”

You don’t have to look far to find examples. Just last week, a professor at Wheaton College in Illinois was fired for claiming that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. Last month, George Washington University barred a student from hanging a Palestinian flag outside his bedroom window. In November, the Huffington Post reported that Missouri state Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia) attempted to block a graduate student at the University of Missouri from performing research on the impact of abortion restrictions. At the University of South Carolina in 2014, a performance called “How to Become a Lesbian in 10 Days” was canceled after state legislators expressed concern that it would “promote perversion.” A professor at the University of Kansas was suspended in 2013 for anti-NRA comments. At the University of Arizona, a professor was fired for conducting research on the effects of marijuana for veterans with PTSD. In 2015, a vegan rights activist at California State Polytechnic University was prevented from handing out flyers about animal abuse on campus. In 2014, campus police blocked students at the University of Toledo from peacefully protesting a lecture by Karl Rove. The same year, adjunct faculty members at St. Charles Community College in St. Louis attempting to unionize were prohibited from gathering petition signatures.

Still, these cases haven’t really become widely cited or popular talking points. Wilson says that’s because conservatives have been more effective at advancing their narrative. “The left isn’t really organized to tell the stories of oppression on campus and to try to defend students and faculty who face these kind of attacks,” he explained. “They need the institutional structure out there, organizations that are going to talk about the issues that will counter this media narrative of political correctness that’s been around for 25 years now.”

[Doug]

The whole concept of PC is totally anti free speech. 

[Marshall]

[theevan]

LOL, Marshall!

“When it comes to repression on college campuses, there’s really no evidence that there’s some left-wing, politically correct attack on freedom of speech,”

Oh yes there is!

[Fingerplucked]

Jan 14, 2016 20:35:48 GMT -5 theevan said:

“When it comes to repression on college campuses, there’s really no evidence that there’s some left-wing, politically correct attack on freedom of speech,”

Oh yes there is!

Based on what?

[theevan]

Too much to quote here.

A good compendium can be found on Rod Dreher's blog. He quotes from many fingerplucked-approved sources, unapproved sources and many personal accounts. He is an academic, front-porcher, localist, orthodox Christian. Maybe you'll just skip it. But it's amazing and disheartening to read what's been going on under our noses.

You'll have to skip through blog posts on other topics, but there's plenty there.

www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/

You know, if you're interested. I understand if you're not.

[theevan]

You'll have to go to "older posts" to start hitting that content.