While conservatives are often considered moralistic to a fault, liberal moralism has become so repressive that some liberals now fear everyday conversations.
In a Tuesday article for New York Magazine, a liberal publication, Jonathan Chait wrote about the new "political correctness," which now comes in the form of phrases like "trigger warnings," "microaggressions" or "mansplaining." These new liberal rules, Chait wrote, is a "system of left-wing ideological repression." Those rules are so stifling, any meaningful debate in liberal circles is cut off.
"A community, virtual or real, that adheres to the rules is deemed 'safe.' The extensive terminology plays a crucial role, locking in shared ideological assumptions that make meaningful disagreement impossible," he explained.
An unidentified "professor at a prestigious university" told Chait that she and her colleagues are so "terrified of facing accusations of triggering trauma" that they avoid "traditional academic work of intellectual exploration." "This is an environment of fear," she said in explaining her need for anonymity.
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This why it's called fascism and why leftist academics have force fed the lie that fascism is a product of the right for generations. Precisely to prevent their brainwashed trolls from recognising their own folly. Those who make the rules are never subject to them.
ReplyDeleteThose who make the rules are never subject to them.
DeleteWell said.
One only has to look at past fascist and socialist states to know free thinking is banned and one has to watch their speech so one may continue to suck oxygen.
ReplyDeleteYes, since they weren't armed.
DeleteKinda nice being armed....
DeleteThe alternative isn't pleasing.
DeleteNot so much an environment of fear, as delusion. Self-delusion. And that is every bit as harmful to academia as fear.
ReplyDeleteLiberals = pods. ‘The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism…. [but] to write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.’ ––George Orwell
ReplyDeleteGood one. Thanks.
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