Showing posts with label political correctness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political correctness. Show all posts
Stephen Moore: The Grievance Generation
Whiny college students protest hurt feelings. Remember the campus unrest in the 1960s? Whether you agreed with the
students or not, they were protesting about things of great consequence —
like civil rights, or the military draft, or the Vietnam War. They had
chants like “hell no, we won’t go.” Those were the good old days. Now
we are ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: The University Gone Feral
Where PC intolerance trumps free speech. The university, long exempted from social norms and rules, has gone wild in the 21st century — or rather, regressed to pre-puberty. The University of Missouri campus police now request that students — a group not known for polite vocabulary — call law enforcement if someone disparages ... MORE
A. Barton Hinkle: Crybaby Nation
Hysteria over hurt feelings and safe spaces. When did America get taken over by a bunch of crybabies? The question seems a little judgy, but look around. You can't swing a
dead cat without hitting people—from all parts of the political
spectrum, it's important to note—yelping about their hurt feelings. That's not hyperbole: A recent viral video ... MOREGeorge Will: Freedom From Speech On American Campuses
The insulation of delicate snowflakes. Yale’s president, Peter Salovey, dealt with the Crisis of the
Distressing E-mail about Hypothetical Halloween Costumes about as you
would expect from someone who has risen to eminence in today’s academia.
He seems to be the kind of adult who has helped produce the kind of
students who are such ... MOREObama Administration Bankrolling Nonstop Protests
by Paul Sperry. Barack Obama’s presidency has been pockmarked by rioting, looting and
protests. That’s no coincidence. It’s what the former community
organizer sought from Day One. And it’s just going to get worse before
he leaves office. The senseless protests we’re seeing break out on the campuses of the University of Missouri,
Yale and other ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: The First Amendment Is Dying
Congress shall make no law, but... "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" Unless we're talking about a white chocolate-paneled cake for a gay
wedding or perpetual funding for "women's health" clinics because it's
the "right thing to do." "or abridging the freedom of speech;" ... MOREWhen You're Popular, You Don't Need Freedom Of Speech
by Andrew Sirios. The rise of the left, the demise of the west. Free speech is not something that people would normally see as a
realm of economics, but in many ways, an economic understanding of the
support and opposition to free speech can shed a lot of light on what’s
happening now in the West. The first thing that needs to be noted
is that ... MORETo The Paranoid Missouri Crybaby Children Unable to Cope With The Crushing Effects Of Hurtful Speech: Call The Cops
by Eugene Volokh. Prof. Thom Lambert (Truth on the Market) passes along the following Missouri-University-wide e-mail: Subject: Reporting Hateful and/or Hurtful Speech. To
continue to ensure that the University of Missouri campus remains safe,
the MU Police Department (MUPD) is asking individuals who witness
incidents of hateful and/or hurtful ... MOREThis Is What A Social Justice Warrior Looks Like
by David French. Pitching a fit as a path toward power. The video below has been making the rounds on the internet. It shows a young woman screaming in the face of Yale professor Nicholas Christakis about the alleged plight of minority students. Why the hysterical shrieking? Because the professor’s wife (a Yale lecturer) had the audacity ... MOREThomas Sowell: Ignoring The Obvious
To know and not to do is not to know. A recent, widely publicized incident in which a policeman was called
to a school classroom to deal with a disruptive student has provoked all
sorts of comments on whether the policeman used "excessive force." What has received far less attention, though it is a far larger
question, with more sweeping ... MORESouth Park Shows How To Defeat Social-Justice Warriors
by Stephen L. Miller. A soul-crushing society, led by a click-happy media and finger-wagging president, that has demanded our country and culture change everything from its football-team names to its campus speech policies, has gone largely unchecked for the past seven or so years. Today, the shirt a scientist wears is more important than his ... MOREThomas Sowell: Charlatans And Sheep
A closer look at the dynamics of disparity. One of the many painful signs of the mindlessness of our times was a
recent section of the Wall Street Journal, built around the theme
"What's Holding Women Back in the Workplace?" Whenever some group is not equally represented in some institution or
activity, the automatic response in some ... MORECharlatans and Sheep: Part II Charlatans and Sheep Part III
Brendan O'Neill: Contempt For Free Speech - Why Are Students Cheering About The Massacre At Charlie Hebdo?
The sad decline of American principles. I witnessed something genuinely
disturbing at Trinity College Dublin last night: trendy, middle-class,
liberal students cheering and whooping a man who had just given the
closest thing I have yet heard to a justification for the massacre at Charlie Hebdo. It was as part of a debate on the right
to offend. I was ... MOREWhat Ben Carson Means By Political Correctness
by Kevin Drum. Here is Ben Carson on Wednesday: At a campaign event in New Hampshire, Carson noted that many people believe a situation like what took place in Germany in the 1930's and 1940's could never happen in America. "I beg to differ," Carson said. "If you go back and look at the history of the world, tyranny and despotism and how it starts, ... MOREJohn Stossel: The Cult of Victims
People benefit by playing the victim. The world has enough real problems without declaring everyone a "victim." Bill Clinton says Hillary is a victim of a right-wing conspiracy. Lindsay Lohan, when jailed for driving drunk and breaking parole, says she's a victim of cruel and unusual punishment. Michael Sam says his NFL career would have gone ... MOREWalter E Williams: Unnecessary Loss Of Life
Politically correct rules of engagement. War is nasty, brutal and costly. In our latest wars, many of the casualties suffered by American troops are a direct result of their having to obey rules of engagement created by politicians who have never set foot on — or even seen — a battlefield. Today's battlefield commanders must be alert to the ... MORE
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