ram2008 (740 posts)
Unpopular opinion: PC policing is going WAY TOO far.
I know this may be unpopular here, but three videos which are going viral on Reddit and Twitter are showing just how out of control this is getting.
The first video shows a photographer from the video trying to snap photos on a college campus where he is told he is not allowed to, and that he's violating everyone's "safe space" all while getting verbally assaulted and threatened by students saying he doesn't have a right to take their picture, at the end of the video one professor calls out that she "needs some muscle here" to get rid of the guy filming the encounter. He was completely in the right being there considering he is a journalist and a student at the University..
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The second video is a professor parrying a verbal assault by a student who is upset about an e-mail going out saying that students have the right to free speech with their costumes, but should avoid wearing stuff that offends others. She freaks out about how allowing these costumes somehow makes students feel unsafe at the university etc. Apparently the administrations efforts were not enough for her...:
"It is not about creating an intellectual space, it is about creating a home here!" No sorry, it's about creating an intellectual space, that's what university is about, going out of your comfort zone and growing as a person.
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And finally, we have the voice of reason as the Professor defends his position and gives the students a lesson in free speech in this video, the students yell about how offensive speech should be banned, the professor responds: Who gets to decide its offensive? and another student cries out "When it hurts me, when it's offensive to me!." Yikes, so anything that is offensive should not be allowed under free speech?
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I'm sorry but I just don't see how this type of behavior helps anyone. Shouting over opposing views, trying to silence free speech, safe spaces, attempting to ban everything deemed offensive. I recognize the need for increased consideration towards minorities as I'm one myself, but not like this-- this type of stuff only hurts the cause. The real world is not like this... these students and some faculty need a reality check.
I'd welcome everyones thoughts and a discussion about this...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027330606So basically, everything the DUmp, Occupy, Planned Parenthood, Code Pink, and every other liberal organization, and person out there give merit to, and stand for. That about right? I don't have a great train of thought at 2:10am, but there has to be a word for this self recognition projected onto others with the complete, and utter unrealization that you are what you are rallying against.
Oh, and you do, Ram? Why increased consideration? I'm as human as a black man, a Hispanic man, a Korean man, or any other man out there. What's with the reverse racism, dude?
LeftyMom (48,107 posts)
1. That's not an "unpopular opinion," it's very popular among society's dimmer bulbs.
Dyed in the wool liberal. To the bone, ladies and gentlemen.
ram2008 (740 posts)
2. Your post is a shining of example of the problem.
Personal attack while not addressing the substance of the post or discussing the issue at hand.
LeftyMom (48,107 posts)
5. How much time do I need to waste on answering trite nonsense, exactly?
Yeah, asshole!

pinboy3niner (45,648 posts)
8. Some call objecting to holocaust denial, use of N-word and sexist slurs "PC policing"
People have differing views on what is PC/PC policing and what is not.
Who? And the only time the N-word is policed, and the offending user subject to massive ridicule is when the user is anything but of African dissent. Which is totally a double standard, and PC in and of itself, but that's a totally new thread.
ram2008 (740 posts)
10. Right, but the title was how it's going too far
As in, policing less serious things that hurt other peoples feelings are deemed offensive. Like halloween costumes... and then actively trying to stifle free speech by using physical and verbal force to that end.
Which is EXACTLY what you liberal poo-flingers do at every single chance you get. No matter how little or cockamamie the situation may be.
Sen. Walter Sobchak (6,928 posts)
16. There are a couple astronomical units between holocaust denial and any halloween costume
No sane person struggles with these boundaries, unless they're making a spectacle of their "tolerance" for the like-minded.
And....?
I'll wait...
Star Member cwydro (20,339 posts)
20. I can't imagine them out in the wide, wild world.
Little precious snowflakes who are in for a rude awakening.
Am I the only one who finds this incredibly hilarious and horribly, gut wrenchingly sad at the same time. "It's not me. It's these f*cked up college kids..."
hifiguy (29,684 posts)
70. That's always my very first thought.
How the fck are these pwecious widdle darlings going to last two weeks in a real world that is not predigested, carefully screened and is filled to the brim with shrieking assholes.
Learning to deal with things and people you don't agree with or who "offend" your pwecious self is called GROWING UP and BECOMING AN ADULT.
These kids are lagging way, way behind. By the time I was a teenager my parents taught me the world was NOT going to rearrange itself to suit me. Looks like these spoiled brats need to lear that lesson ASAP.
I guess everyone in DUmmieland never learned that then, did you? Pre-digested? Check. Carefully screened? Check....ish. Filled to the brim with shrieking assholes?
CHECK!And actually, they're sadly not lagging way behind. Miserably, they're right with the times thanks to your leaders in power. I can only hope that 1. When they meet one of OUR kind with a semblance of reason, rationale, and understanding, they don't shit themselves on the spot. 2. Our kind don't just die out with the road we're going down.
How dare you condescend idiotically as if you are not the problem.
Have at it, guys. I've had enough for the
nightmorning.