(October 11, 2016 at 10:27 am)EruptedCarcassBloat Wrote:

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(October 11, 2016 at 10:24 am)Faith No More Wrote: No, fuck this hyper-PC bullshit.  

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There's a reason that freedom of speech is in the first fucking amendment.  We've gone way overboard with policing what people say, and all we're doing is forcing each other to cater people's insecurities.  These days it's not even good enough to avoid saying something bigoted.  If someone else even perceives it to be bigoted, regardless of whether it is or not, you'll be attacked and forced to apologize.  Ask Giuliana Rancic(Google it).

Sure, people like to jump on the anti-SJW bandwagon and use it to justify bigotry, but that doesn't take away from the fact that many people on the left have taken a totalitarian approach to regulating speech.  It's part of why I feel the need to qualify telling people I'm a liberal with "not that kind of liberal."  It reminds me of certain students freaking out at a university because someone wrote a pro-Trump sentence in chalk on the sidewalk and demanding the administration do something about it.  Sure, Trump is a total douchebag, but I thought we had freedom of speech in this country?  

I also find all of the energy being spent on policing speech totally offensive.  There are little kids being bombed in Syria, but people are getting up in arms over others using the wrong terminology.  Talk about fucked up priorities.

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."  - Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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Oh look, another person following sensationalist news stories designed to give you a warped perspective of liberals. There's no totalitarian progressive regime.

(October 11, 2016 at 11:37 am)ChadWooters Wrote:

(October 11, 2016 at 10:27 am)EruptedCarcassBloat Wrote:

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Oh look, another person following sensationalist news stories designed to give you a warped perspective of liberals. There's no totalitarian progressive regime.

Not yet. Totalitarian regimes always start with corrupting ideologies. At one time "critical theory" was just an obscure intellectual movement called the Frankfort School. It's only now taking root and its dubious principles go unquestioned because they cannot be questioned for fear of social and economic isolation.

(October 11, 2016 at 10:45 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: No one is actually "policing" what people say - you can say whatever you want. Just understand you might be called out for being a prick.

(October 11, 2016 at 11:32 am)EruptedCarcassBloat Wrote: I'm sorry, how about, you're not not wrong.

(October 11, 2016 at 12:24 pm)Faith No More Wrote:

(October 11, 2016 at 11:32 am)EruptedCarcassBloat Wrote: I'm sorry, how about, you're not not wrong.

Well, you're not not not wrong about that.

(October 11, 2016 at 9:57 am)EruptedCarcassBloat Wrote: I love Bill Maher lol. Bill Maher, Secular Talk, and The Young Turks are great. Secular talk is probably my favorite though, Kyle is always on point.

(October 11, 2016 at 1:28 am)Arkilogue Wrote: This kind of antagonist, anti-social, exploitive, wanton "assholier than thou" shit is why SJW is a derogatory term.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Wv1nX-Pog

(October 11, 2016 at 1:27 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(October 11, 2016 at 1:28 am)Arkilogue Wrote: This kind of antagonist, anti-social, exploitive, wanton "assholier than thou" shit is why SJW is a derogatory term.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Wv1nX-Pog

lol, "here's a sidewalk, have a wonderful evening."

I could only stand about 53 seconds of that gal's voice, though, it grated on my goddamned nerves. (I cheated and skipped ahead to see if he would actually set her walking as he should have).

(October 11, 2016 at 12:24 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I don't have to let a neo-nazi scream at jews in my house either.  He is, ofc, free to go elsewhere to scream at jews - I'll hand him the megaphone.  Freedom of speech -does not- mean that you get to say whatever you want, wherever you want, or that you can force someone to allow you to do so -at their venue-.  Nor is preventing someone from saying something, at your venue, "policing" what people are free to say.