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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Liberals Aren’t as Tolerant as They Think

In March, students at Middlebury College disrupted a lecture by the conservative political scientist Charles Murray because they disagreed with some of his writings. Last month, the University of California, Berkeley, canceled a lecture by the conservative commentator Ann Coulter due to concerns for her safety—just two months after uninviting the conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos due to violent protests. Media outlets on the right have played up the incidents as evidence of rising close-mindedness on the left.

For years, it’s conservatives who have been branded as intolerant, often for good reason. But conservatives will tell you that liberals demonstrate their own intolerance, using the strictures of political correctness as a weapon of oppression. That became a familiar theme during the 2016 campaign. After the election, Sean McElwee, a policy analyst at the progressive group Demos Action, reported that Donald Trump had received his strongest support among Americans who felt that whites and Christians faced “a great deal” of discrimination. Spencer Greenberg, a mathematician who runs a website for improving decision-making, found that the biggest predictor of voting for Trump after party affiliation was the rejection of political correctness—Trump’s voters felt silenced.

So who’s right?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who are the snowflakes now?

Anonymous said...

Liberals have never been tolerant. The sixties proved that to anyone bothering to actually learn our country's history beyond the Media 'spin.' It's about time people woke up and realized what they're all about instead of just blindly following them off a cliff.

Anonymous said...

I have heard too many liberals spouting off about how they couldn't live with their spouse any more if they heard the spouse voted for Trump!