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Post by Jayman on Dec 18, 2019 6:38:35 GMT
the most telling part of the interview is when she asked why should his right to free speech trump a trans person's right to not be offended. That is the whole problem with what is happening on campuses and within our society. People really believe they have a right to never hear any point of view that they don't agree with. When you have a group of people that are looking for things to be offended by, that shuts down any conversation between two people that disagree. I agree and it's all age groups but it isn't anything new or worse than the past, it's just worse than it was in our past. 24 hour news brings loads of bad news and even though our conscious mind knows these things are not happening outside our door (for most of us), our unconscious mind interprets it as our environment being dangerous and so people begin to believe the world is more dangerous, but what changed is our perception of reality, not the world. In fact violence has been declining for centuries and politics are less intense now than 150 years ago (I believe one of the Republican reps spoke to this fact during the impeachment hearing). I think it has more to do with how people were raised as well as the whole group think mentality where everybody riles each other up on the internet into thinking everybody is pure evil and scum except for the people that agree with them. The big difference as opposed to the past was the mentality of "I don't agree with what you say but I will defend to the death his right to say it", has now morphed into "I don't agree with what you say and I will defend to the death my right to stop you from saying it"
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