Putting down a girl on her looks are we??? That is something that Trump has been accused of…Just sayin…
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So after listening to him talk, what specifically do you NOT agree with??? Milo that is…
I’m confused. Is it NON PC to sit and listen to a moron tell you that Feminism is a cancer? Is it non-PC to pretend to listen respectfully to absolute crap as if it is based in fact? Hmmmm.
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My problem with Yiannopoulos is that he’s admittedly a provocateur. So it is often hard to distinguish between his points made in jest, and those he is actually serious about. Sometimes he makes great points, just as Sommers does. Sometimes he makes moronic points. I’m not sure when this generation of college students got such thin skin that they can’t hear opinions that are different from their own. Shouting over people so that their point cannot be heard is no different than attacking them with ad hominems because you can’t make a better counter-point.
The Regressive Left is a serious and dangerous problem. Watch Dave Ruben’s show on Youtube for great, reasonable discussions.
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“You know who wears sunglasses inside? Blind people and assholes.” - Larry David
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Indeed…Google is the bestest. Had to look that phrase up. I could just see it being said with a sneer.
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And if anyone is an expert on assholes, it is Larry David
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I have certainly benefitted by the Google, for sure
Whaaaaaat? Milo wasn’t crying incessantly about his blue checkmark?
THIS ISN’T MY WORLD
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This Milo guy is what you get when someone with their head up their ass tries to bleach their asshole.
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They aren’t confused. No means yes, and yes means anal. And if you go to a party and alcohol is there, you’re asking for it.
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So “feminism is cancer” is the kind of thoughful speech we risk silencing through political correctness? I am down with that.
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I would agree.
Christina Hoff Summers says things I disagree with, certainly, but she does make valid points, and she is not an apologist for rapists as far as I’m know. (Please point me to a source if I’m wrong.) She is correct that certain kinds of “liberalism” lead to censorship and there have been a number of examples on campuses.
Jonathan Chait did a piece on this.
And here:
See also:
He wrote in favor of free speech and civil discourse even with those with whom we disagree, and argued that these are core tenants of American liberalism that we need to defend against people who would tell us that we are all too fragile to be able to endure hearing things we don’t like.
He got a lot of pushback, and wrote about that, too.
We are not too fragile. And civil discourse is one of the prime values of a university. It was the value that allowed me to discuss emotional and sensitive topics, principally involving religion, with even first year students and have a good chance of them hearing. It was the value that allowed their often conservative parents to tolerate that their children were hearing things that they themselves did not agree with. It is the foundation of the pursuit of knowledge, wherever it takes us.
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The best way to deal with this trio of assholes is to ignore them. Shouting at them as though they matter only pumps them up and convinces them they are correct.
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OH man. you beat me to it. What’s up with that overstuffed baby in a child’s shirt?
He may not be a feminist, but he presented a feminine persona.
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The roots of this are not in an objection to hearing different opinions. They are in a recognition that certain types of speech reinforce the marginalization of groups out side of the dominant culture (which is still male and white and straight and christian in academia). When a person in a non-dominent group has to sit through speech that makes them in particular uncomfortable, it sends a message that they don’t belong. I remember very uninformed bro speech about rape and consent when I was in law school in the eighties. The discussion (somewhat encouraged by the professor) made me feel super uncomfortable and like I did not belong. It was probably way worse for the women in the room (and the men) who had been victims of sexual assault.
So that’s the problem. Not thin skinned teens. It can go overboard, certainly, but it is upsetting to me that the real basis for sensitivity about speech gets lost in the discussion.
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You mean the speaker dressed up as an 80s douchebag ‘trying to have a dialogue’ by telling UMass students that feminism is cancer and expecting it to be a discussion conducted ‘in a civil mannor [sic]’? I’d call that asking for it in a big way, myself.
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No question: the outraged audience members speaking truth to bigotry and sexism. There’s nothing more American than a good ole protest.
These “speakers” aren’t trying to have a dialogue anyway, oh He Who Uses “88” And We All Know Why. They were deliberately offending everyone by preaching bigotry and sexism and attempting to justify it…and no doubt taking their perverse little pleasure in the entire debacle.
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