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Category Archives: Political Correctness
Facebook Hires 3,000 to Monitor ‘Hate Speech’
Yet another reason to quit FB, as if you needed one: Social media giant Facebook is increasing its crackdown on what it perceives as hateful content. The company is hiring an additional 3,000 content reviewers to monitor the site, according … Continue reading
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Kimball: Inebriates of Virtue
From “Inebriates of Virtue”, by one of the best culture critics writing, Roger Kimball: At Yale, where censorship never sleeps, the Committee of Public Safety—no, wait, that was Robespierre’s plaything. Yale’s new bureaucracy is called the “Committee on Art in … Continue reading
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Scruton: “The Threat of Free Speech in the University”
As I’ve noted recently, I’m particularly interested in the parallels between current P.C. soft totalitarianism and the experience of Soviet era dissidents. From Roger Scruton’s “The Threat of Free Speech in the University”: The fear of heresy arises whenever groups … Continue reading
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Haidt: The Fragile Generation
Jonathan Haidt discusses ‘The Fragile Generation’: ‘I’m very concerned about a phenomenon called “concept creep” – which has been happening to a lot of psychological terms since the 1990s’, he says. ‘When a word like “violence” is allowed to creep … Continue reading
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Antifa’s ‘Emily’ Gorcenski Despairing About Charlottesville Rally
I was in tears watching this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=48&v=wEW-DdTH9qc
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L.A. Votes to Replace Columbus Day With Indigenous Peoples Day
It’s not only statues that the Left is toppling, it’s also holidays. From the AP: LOS ANGELES — The City Council has voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day as an official Los Angeles holiday. Councilmembers voted 14-1 to … Continue reading
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The Princeton Statement
Princeton University has posted “Some Thoughts and Advice for Our Students and All Students” signed by 15 members of prominent Ivy League faculty. We are scholars and teachers at Princeton, Harvard, and Yale who have some thoughts to share and … Continue reading
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NYT: 8/29/17
The NYT continues to platform crazier and crazier SJW mantras, in the forms of normalizing censorship and seeing neo-Nazis behind every tree. Today we have “White ‘Power’ and the Fear of Replacement” by Abigail Levin and Lisa Guenther: Lisa Guenther … Continue reading
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Portlandia: Feminists Triggered by Air Conditioning Repairmen
The line between parody and reality is increasingly blurring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe4cXPWPJWU
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Cloward-Piven 2.0
Alt-Right provocations, leading to hysterical overreach by the Left, is a variation of the Cloward-Piven strategy: overload The Cathedral’s P.C. system, exposing its core axioms, and force a crisis to the system.
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