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The New Shut Up Culture
Townhall.com ^ | June 16, 2015 | Jon Schwebbe

Posted on 06/16/2015 1:13:21 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 06/16/2015 1:13:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Shut up you bigot.


2 posted on 06/16/2015 1:15:09 PM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: Kaslin
She told me she felt convicted in her new belief, but she was afraid to speak out about it because “people are too mean.”

Was she "mean" to those who disagreed with her old belief?

3 posted on 06/16/2015 1:15:33 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Kaslin

What I see mostly is more along the lines of “Shut up, you’re a HATER!”


4 posted on 06/16/2015 1:16:12 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod (Democrats are Cruz'n for a Bruisin' in 2016!)
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To: Kaslin
When you silence someone’s voice because you disagree with it by calling them a bigot, you are actually the bigot.
5 posted on 06/16/2015 1:17:10 PM PDT by skeeter
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That’s racist.


6 posted on 06/16/2015 1:17:34 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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The PC culture is enshrined in government, academia, media, law and even in the HR departments of many companies.

The left is free to spew all the nasty and hateful comments they want without repercussions. But let one of us stand up to them or even mildly object and we do so at our own peril.

7 posted on 06/16/2015 1:18:09 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Kaslin
All of us — conservatives, liberals, libertarians, even socialists — have a vested interest in a country that values the freedom of speech.

He makes the mistake of believing everyone is like him and wants the same things he does.

"Some" of us want freedom. "Some" of us respect people who are different from ourselves. "Some" of us respect people whose beliefs are different than our own. The others don't want those things for anyone other than themselves. They would gladly give up your freedom for the power to tell you what to think and when to shut up.

8 posted on 06/16/2015 1:20:22 PM PDT by marron
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To: Kaslin

It’s not a “culture”, just leftism. Alinsky’s tactics are now second nature to the left.


9 posted on 06/16/2015 1:27:52 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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IMO, Twitter was invented specifically to allow phony mobs to shout down people like her.


10 posted on 06/16/2015 1:35:16 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

“’Shut up,’ he explained.” - Ring Lardner


11 posted on 06/16/2015 1:38:32 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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PC-—gives the ability to destroy Reason in any child exposed to this cultural Marxism and Rot. PC is the Marxists controlling all concepts a child can have-—like eliminating the word wife and husband for “spouse”-—which has been done to make homosexual “marriage” rational in children. As Wittgenstein knew-—you can control the proper perceptions in the masses if you can control the Language/Words.....like even putting irrational, evil concepts in the public square like “homosexual” “marriage” and people will embed the concept and KNOW it is “good”. Just repeat it to young children over and over and that Heather has two mommies and the Lie becomes Truth.

It comes straight of operant conditioning-—repeat lies over and over and it becomes the truth-—which literally destroys the ability of children to be critical thinkers. Classical Education which includes the Bible is the only ideology which created the Age of Reason—the Enlightenment-—that ability to think abstractly-—to get rid of slavery and pederasty and homosexuality and polygamy as a “Good”-—all common in non-Christian cultures. Using Human Beings as a Means to an End is Marxism, Paganism, Satanism, etc., and only incompatible with Christianity and maybe Judaism, although Judaism tends to be too exclusive.

All “education” —public schools—are nothing but group think factories to destroy Individualism and “thinking outside the box”-—that ability to have a Christian Worldview (ethics system) like our Founding Fathers where Truth/God is the purpose of Justice. Without Right Reason according to Natural Law (


12 posted on 06/16/2015 1:40:41 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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13 posted on 06/16/2015 1:40:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I personally don’t observe Ramadan, but that doesn’t mean I don’t respect the beliefs of Muslims.

Kill the infidels?

14 posted on 06/16/2015 1:49:00 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Kaslin

After the “shut up” culture comes the gulag culture.


15 posted on 06/16/2015 2:06:33 PM PDT by JimSEA
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16 posted on 06/16/2015 2:07:58 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: JimSEA

As Bob Dylan said, it’ll end in a hail of bullets.


17 posted on 06/16/2015 2:12:21 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Kaslin
The dictionary definition of bigot is “a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.”

And that pretty much defines almost all of the left. So why shouldn't we call them what they continually reveal themselves to be, bigots?

18 posted on 06/16/2015 2:14:25 PM PDT by Doug Loss
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“When did this phenomenon begin? When did we decide that disagreeing with a powerful prevailing opinion is bigotry?”

I dunno. Ask some of our cruz bots here at FR. They know far more about that than I do.


19 posted on 06/16/2015 2:31:59 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools.)
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dissent and the rights of the minority used to be important, until the left took over


20 posted on 06/16/2015 2:33:18 PM PDT by GeronL
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