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Old 11-14-2015, 02:54 PM   #374
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague View Post
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...t-yale/414810/

Campuses in the United States (and probably elsewhere, really) have degenerated into a cesspool of morons who don't actually want to think about anything but are anxious to be told what they should think about everything, and then yell obscenities at those who disagree with them. They're violently in favour of every possible kind of diversity except for diversity of thought.

Yes, freedom of ideas IS more important than not offending minorities. This shouldn't be difficult to see. It's really the only thing that's non-negotiable. People are free to be horribly, horribly wrong about things, so that their wrongness can be corrected. If not offending minorities is important, and to some degree it certainly is, then it'll be easy to convince everyone of that importance using ideas. Not censorship or mob rule.

I am really, really starting to despise my own side of the political spectrum. Actually, I'm starting to suspect it's been entirely hijacked at the youth level. It used to be that the conservatives were the ones obsessed with controlling the behaviours of other people - stop sleeping with certain people, stop watching violent TV or playing violent video games, enjoying sex is immoral and you should be pure and nun-like, etc. Now religious justifications for those sorts of authoritarian dicta are out of fashion, so we're going to justify our urge to control other people under the new guise of political correctness or safe spaces or whatever term you'd like to use.

Just shamefully illiberal fascistic behavior.
Well said. That's why I made a large donation to Carpay's group. I don't have time for for his religious views, but he is the only one actually fighting the intolerance on campus in courts.
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