Political Correctness

[Fidel_Castronaut]

For kids having identity issues or confusion over their sexuality, I can see a point, and indeed I think that's a separate point. . But when you hear of them being used to prevent the voicing of political and/or social commentaries then I think 'what?'

South Park did a great job in their reality sketch of exposing the utter political, social and philosophical bankruptcy of such a stance. People are never always going to agree, on anything, and shielding out those dissenting voices to which you disagree with is not going to make them go away. It's like the whole banning of Donald trump nonsense that went on in the UK for a while. The best way to challenge those views you disagree with is to welcome them into the open sphere of public critique.

What those safe spaces at Yale are a symptom of is the increasingly pervasive discourse of silencing anything which remotely sounds like dissent. Like what's happening at my old university with Cecil Rhodes:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/educat...83691.html

It's just such utter bunk. I must stress my issue is not win the safe spaces per se, but the larger burgeoning discourse of removing/ silencing things people don't 'like'. Cecil Rhodes may have been an imperialist but he was apart of Oxford's and South Africa's history. He wasn't Hitler, as some People seem to want to suggest.

Overall I think the economist did a great piece on them:

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21...ile-campus