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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    I know they are, and it's wrong. you used to be smart.
    Than you have nullified your previous comment. Which is it, dude?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    Than you have nullified your previous comment. Which is it, dude?
    It's your mother.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post


    It’s easy enough, some sixty-five years after the fact, to cluck our tongues at the cowardice and stupidity of those who went along with McCarthyism (He was right about the DEMOCRATS and Communism, as we later learned).

    It’s especially easy for liberals and academics to say that had they been alive back then, they would certainly have had the courage to stand up for discourse and to stand up for those being blacklisted. That’s partly because universities like to present themselves as bastions of free thought and discourse, where students, faculty, and guests discuss the most important issues of the day. Liberal academics especially like to present themselves as encouraging of these discussions.

    Bullshit.

    A new McCarthyism—complete with blacklisting—has overtaken universities, and discourse in general, and far from opposing it, liberal academics are its most active and ardent perpetrators, demanding a hegemony of thought and discourse that rivals the original.

    For the past decade and half, deplatforming—the disinvitation of a speaker at the insistence of a special interest group—"cancel culture", and blacklisting have been, to use the word of an organization that tracks the erosion of academic freedom through the increased use of deplatforming, “exploding.” And the targets of the liberals and leftists are not confined to the right (although they do certainly target right-wingers as well).

    Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges was deplatformed because he speaks out against prostitution as exploitative of women.

    Writer and activist Gail Dines was deplatformed because she speaks out against pornography.

    An anarchist organization called “Civil Liberties Defense Center” lent its efforts to attempts to deplatform writer and activist Lierre Keith from the University of Oregon because she’s a radical feminist.

    The irony of an organization with “civil liberties” in its title attempting to deplatform someone because her ideology doesn’t fit its own doesn’t escape me, and probably won’t escape anyone outside of anarchist/liberal/leftist circles.

    A female genital mutilation survivor, child bride survivor, and feminist activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was disinvited from receiving an honorary degree at Brandeis because she writes, from unspeakably painful experience, about how millions of women are treated under Islam.

    McCarthy used the rhetoric of “communism” to blacklist. The modern-day McCarthys use the rhetoric of “oppression” and “trauma.”

    Things have gotten bad enough that Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and other talented comedians have said they can’t or won’t play colleges any more.

    As Bill Maher commented, “When Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld say you have a stick up your ass, you don’t have to wait for the X-rays to come back. That’s right, a black, and a Jew walk onto a college campus and they all can’t wait to leave.”

    Things have gotten bad enough that as far back as 2015, The Onion put out a satirical piece titled, “College Encourages Lively Exchange of Idea: Students, Faculty, Invited to Freely Express Single Viewpoint.”

    The article concluded with fictitious college President Kevin Abrams stating, “‘Whether it’s a discussion of a national political issue or a concern here on campus, an open forum in which one argument is uniformly reinforced is crucial for maintaining the exceptional learning environment we have cultivated here.’ Abrams told reporters that counseling resources were available for any student made uncomfortable by the viewpoint.”


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    I just paid the $20 to watch "No Safe Spaces" with Adam Corolla and Dennis Prager. If you really want to be pissed off take a look at it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Survivorman View Post
    I just paid the $20 to watch "No Safe Spaces" with Adam Corolla and Dennis Prager. If you really want to be pissed off take a look at it.
    You got scammed out of $20.
    There's no such thing as Cancel Culture or Safe Spaces.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    I know they are, and it's wrong. you used to be smart.
    No he didn't. Into the Night was always literally the dumbest person on the forum.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post


    It’s easy enough, some sixty-five years after the fact, to cluck our tongues at the cowardice and stupidity of those who went along with McCarthyism (He was right about the DEMOCRATS and Communism, as we later learned).

    It’s especially easy for liberals and academics to say that had they been alive back then, they would certainly have had the courage to stand up for discourse and to stand up for those being blacklisted. That’s partly because universities like to present themselves as bastions of free thought and discourse, where students, faculty, and guests discuss the most important issues of the day. Liberal academics especially like to present themselves as encouraging of these discussions.

    Bullshit.

    A new McCarthyism—complete with blacklisting—has overtaken universities, and discourse in general, and far from opposing it, liberal academics are its most active and ardent perpetrators, demanding a hegemony of thought and discourse that rivals the original.

    For the past decade and half, deplatforming—the disinvitation of a speaker at the insistence of a special interest group—"cancel culture", and blacklisting have been, to use the word of an organization that tracks the erosion of academic freedom through the increased use of deplatforming, “exploding.” And the targets of the liberals and leftists are not confined to the right (although they do certainly target right-wingers as well).

    Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges was deplatformed because he speaks out against prostitution as exploitative of women.

    Writer and activist Gail Dines was deplatformed because she speaks out against pornography.

    An anarchist organization called “Civil Liberties Defense Center” lent its efforts to attempts to deplatform writer and activist Lierre Keith from the University of Oregon because she’s a radical feminist.

    The irony of an organization with “civil liberties” in its title attempting to deplatform someone because her ideology doesn’t fit its own doesn’t escape me, and probably won’t escape anyone outside of anarchist/liberal/leftist circles.

    A female genital mutilation survivor, child bride survivor, and feminist activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was disinvited from receiving an honorary degree at Brandeis because she writes, from unspeakably painful experience, about how millions of women are treated under Islam.

    McCarthy used the rhetoric of “communism” to blacklist. The modern-day McCarthys use the rhetoric of “oppression” and “trauma.”

    Things have gotten bad enough that Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and other talented comedians have said they can’t or won’t play colleges any more.

    As Bill Maher commented, “When Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld say you have a stick up your ass, you don’t have to wait for the X-rays to come back. That’s right, a black, and a Jew walk onto a college campus and they all can’t wait to leave.”

    Things have gotten bad enough that as far back as 2015, The Onion put out a satirical piece titled, “College Encourages Lively Exchange of Idea: Students, Faculty, Invited to Freely Express Single Viewpoint.”

    The article concluded with fictitious college President Kevin Abrams stating, “‘Whether it’s a discussion of a national political issue or a concern here on campus, an open forum in which one argument is uniformly reinforced is crucial for maintaining the exceptional learning environment we have cultivated here.’ Abrams told reporters that counseling resources were available for any student made uncomfortable by the viewpoint.”


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    Quote Originally Posted by Survivorman View Post
    I just paid the $20 to watch "No Safe Spaces" with Adam Corolla and Dennis Prager. If you really want to be pissed off take a look at it.
    A fool and his money...

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    You got scammed out of $20.
    There's no such thing as Cancel Culture or Safe Spaces.
    Watch the movie or shut up, I'm not going to argue with somebody who doesn't even know what I am talking about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Survivorman View Post
    Watch the movie or shut up, I'm not going to argue with somebody who doesn't even know what I am talking about.
    Unfortunately, I do know what you're talking about. Adam Corolla and Dennis Prager regularly promote the lie that "the Left" has created Safe Spaces and Cancel Culture. Of course, they can't name any celebrities who have lost their careers over Cancel Culture because that doesn't actually happen. And they can't name any public colleges that banned things deemed controversial, because that doesn't actually happen. And they can't name any "totalitarian" laws in America regarding speech because that doesn't actually happen.

    The only thing more pathetic than the SJW cucks are the Anti-SJW cucks. You guys are terrified of things that don't exist all because you watched a few YouTube videos.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    A fool and his money...
    Can't have people thinking for themselves, can you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Survivorman View Post
    Can't have people thinking for themselves, can you?
    You think listening to Dennis Prager is thinking for yourself

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    You think listening to Dennis Prager is thinking for yourself
    Trumpcucks blindly believe anything anyone on the Alt-Lite or Alt-Right says, then claim they think for themselves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    Unfortunately, I do know what you're talking about. Adam Corolla and Dennis Prager regularly promote the lie that "the Left" has created Safe Spaces and Cancel Culture. Of course, they can't name any celebrities who have lost their careers over Cancel Culture because that doesn't actually happen. And they can't name any public colleges that banned things deemed controversial, because that doesn't actually happen. And they can't name any "totalitarian" laws in America regarding speech because that doesn't actually happen.

    The only thing more pathetic than the SJW cucks are the Anti-SJW cucks. You guys are terrified of things that don't exist all because you watched a few YouTube videos.
    You haven't seen the flick, have you, and here you are arguing with me about what is or is not in it. Now THAT'S pathetic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Survivorman View Post
    You haven't seen the flick, have you, and here you are arguing with me about what is or is not in it. Now THAT'S pathetic.
    I also haven't seen Birth of a Nation, but I know what the KKK is about.

    Adam Corolla and Dennis Prager say that Cancel Culture and Safe Spaces are real, correct? Are you saying I'm wrong about this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    You think listening to Dennis Prager is thinking for yourself
    Like you think watching MSDNC and Commie News Network is thinking for yourself...

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