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trueblue
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Location: In between the lines
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| Titus2 wrote: |
| This thread will not last long. There's not that much to say. |
You underestimate the power of the crimson wave, perpetuated by fellow poster, PMS.
But, at the same time, she did have a good quick quill quote. |
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Plain Meaning
Joined: 18 Oct 2014
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Trump: Warren is WAYCIST!!!!
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| “She said she’s 5% Native American. She was unable to prove it, Elizabeth Warren is a total fraud. I know it.” |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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This seems at least somewhat appropriate for this thread.
Tennessee Businesses That Disarm Concealed Carry Permit Holders Now Liable for Their Safety
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| When the law, contained in SB 1736, takes effect, business owners who demand law-abiding citizens disarm themselves will assume liability for injuries they incur while on the “posted premises.” Moreover, the business owners will be liable for injuries a concealed permit holder incurs while retreating from the business to a vehicle–during an emergency–to retrieve the gun the business owner barred. |
I can only assume that the general opinion in Tennessee still holds that businesses should have the right to refuse to bake queer cakes. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/trump-brags-that-he-cost-a-man-his-livelihood/520233/
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Today, Kaepernick is a free agent. It isn’t clear whether his bygone protests have prevented him from being signed or if he’d be having trouble finding a new job regardless.
Nevertheless, Trump is taking credit. In the past he has criticized Kaepernick. “And you know, your San Francisco quarterback,” Trump told that rally. “...it was reported that NFL owners don’t want to pick him up because they don’t want to get a nasty tweet from Donald Trump. Do you believe that? I just saw that. I just saw that. I said if I remember that one I’m gonna report it to the people of the Kentucky. Because they like it when people actually stand for the American flag." |
Gotta stand for that flag. Gotta stand for that flag. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Free Speech is under attack!
But not really ...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/12/17100496/political-correctness-data
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David Brooks’s column last Friday starts with a reference to the heckling of Christina Hoff Sommers at a recent speaking engagement at a small private university in Portland, Oregon. But he swiftly pivots to broad generalizations about his “basic understanding of how citizenship is supposed to work” versus “today’s students” for whom “reason, apparently, ceased to matter” and instead “see public life as an inevitable war of tribe versus tribe.”
Eric Boehm writing in Reason, similarly but even more bombastically, refers to a climate of “cultural decay” and “authoritarian political correctness” that is leading us toward the sort of dystopia depicted in Ray Bradbury’s science fiction classic Fahrenheit 451.
Conviction that these trends are big and real is so firmly entrenched that when Bari Weiss cited a fake Twitter account as evidence for her thesis about political correctness run amok — another column built around the Summers speech — the New York Times simply removed the example and appended an editor’s note without otherwise altering the column. |
From where I sit, free speech in the United States appears robust. Hell, the First Amendment is so strong, it has been used to squelch reasonable campaign financing restrictions.
Graph: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/m9yQj319H84xWGF1zfnU08ZDC5o=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/10392043/Screen_Shot_2018_03_09_at_11.29.46_AM.png
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What you see here is that people on the moderate left really have become less tolerant of racists while growing more tolerant of all other groups. Meanwhile, the other five ideological subcategories seem to have become more tolerant of everyone.
Also note that in general, people with left-wing ideological commitments are overall more tolerant than people with right-wing ones. There’s simply no evidence for the Brooks view that left-wing politics is producing closed-minded people. Indeed, as Murphy notes, this is not really much of a surprise as there is a well-known correlation between left-wing political commitments and the personality attribute known to psychologists as Openness to Experience. Somewhat ironically, two of the best-known popularizers of this point, Jonathan Haidt and Jordan Peterson, are vocal anti-PC activists, though survey data confirms exactly what their research predicts — left-wing people are more supportive of free expression.
I would not make a big deal out of this ideological disagreement, however, because the important thing is that there’s a generally rising level of support for free speech. The United States is a big country, and it’s possible to cherry-pick examples of lots of different things happening. But to assess broad trends, we need to look at systematic data, and the data indicates a trend toward more willingness to hear from disagreeable people, not less. |
Of course, there is one exception concerning tolerance for free speech. |
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