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Originally Posted by sworkhard
For sure, I think common decency and courtesy are important. I just think that the law and places that are known for or meant to cultivate freedom of thought and really great debate like universities aren't what should be enforcing speech codes and the like.
PC, identity politics, and the like apply just as much to the right as to the left. The are just applied in different ways. To the extent that PC is just another way of saying, don't be a dick, I'm fine with it. To the extent that it becomes intertwined with identity politics (In the how dare you have an opinion on that as a white man sense), I think it's harmful.
Also, this is off topic, but worth mentioning, I think members of both the right and left are perpetrating and partaking in victim culture, engaging in cry-bulling, and so on.
Perceptions of intent matters to people. Consider how people make a big fuss about safe spaces on campus, but don't have a problem with clubs and groups like WISE, for example.
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I don't know that we're actually disagreeing on much here. There's a difference between a college campus being a place to challenge minds and opinions, and I'm not arguing against that at all.
I do take issue with a man trying to be
President of the United States purposefully using hateful terminology that incites violence, that there's an entire 24 hour news network that claims to be "fair and balanced" that spews that same kind of speech, just slightly less obvious, that types like Limbaugh, etc are inciting their bases to hate various groups of innocent people.
There's a difference between a college professor challenging his students to think about something from another point-of-view and GOP leaders speaking of refugees as murderers-in-waiting.