Free speech is flunking out on college campuses
From the article:
"Women, sexual assault victims, people of color, transgender students. College campuses have created “safe spaces” for all sorts of marginalized groups. But in the process, one member of the campus community has lost precious real estate.
"Free speech."
"Women, sexual assault victims, people of color, transgender students. College campuses have created “safe spaces” for all sorts of marginalized groups. But in the process, one member of the campus community has lost precious real estate.
"Free speech."
I have heard people condemn college campuses being PC. I think PC means saying "disabled" instead of "handicapped". Who cares? I don't want to bother anyone needlessly, so I'll used the polite term. The site I linked to is either a parody or an example of it going way overboard. They start off saying everyone should be able to "relax and fully express" themselves without fear of hearing anything offensive in a long list of ways. That's a contradiction. When you fully express yourself, someone might be offended. The correct way to deal with this IMHO is to learn social cues that indicate you're offending someone and then just stop doing it unless you have a constructive purpose. A horrible approach IMHO is to create "safe spaces" and urge everyone to avoid a long laundry list of ways you might offend someone. The list can never be long enough to replace Wheaton's Law.
This "safe space" as used in the article is an Orwellian phrase: You can feel totally safe to express yourself as long as you express the right ideas.
It's worth clicking through to Mr. Stascavage's supposedly offensive article. There's nothing offensive about it in the slightest degree. I found the appology to be more offensive b/c it talks about the wounds the Stascavage's article caused but doesn't say on what points they disagree.
If this normal at college campuses, WTF has gone wrong?
If the Washington Post did the unbiased job it is supposed to do the problem they complain about would not exist.
Meddling biased liberal looters.
(Sorry for repeating myself.)
https://youtu.be/NnY0fvNFxSs