Marquette University suspends a professor for arguing against classroom speech codes, a conservative writer blames liberal “hate speech” for the murder of two cops (echoing liberals who do the same again and again) and Sony shuts down a movie because of vague threats.
This all culminates months of colleges chasing away those with unpopular views, and social media mobs getting people fired for holding unfashionable opinions.
The pattern is this: The U.S., and the West more broadly, is becoming intolerant of expression that offends an angry minority or the elite sensibilities.
This intolerance shows itself in many ways, ranging from government censorship (mostly in Europe), to institutional censorship (in the American academy), to wild freakouts or blaming “hate speech” and “incitement” when a madman commits a murder.
Let’s look at two recent instances: Marquette and the New York Police Department.
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But how can Americans express honest opinions when they aren't getting honest information? For reasons of convenience our government would prefer us to think that North Korea is guilty of hacking and threatening and all things bad.They have not done any of the such,but since we took it hook line and sinker such claims continue.Since we collectively take everything we are told and run with it the formula is working so why change it now? We are not a nation of free thinkers.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone ever looked at a night time picture of North Korea....Its dark like the middle ages. To think that they have to technology and infrastructure to hack a company like Sony is absurd.
ReplyDeleteif the united states government wouldnt lie 24/7 we wouldnt have to worry about it
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