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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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To: Kaslin
their formative years with male hormones?

Don't they still have "male" hormones? Even if they are dosing themselves with estrogen; don't they still have "male" hormones? What did they do that would change that? Nothing. Bruce Jenner still has a penis between his legs. I believe that makes him male. He can have his adam's apple shaved, and cosmetic surgery to make his face more feminine, and load up on estrogen; but, penis equals male. And, btw, so does his DNA. I don't care what he "feels" like. When did they stop being transvestites when they had this problem?

21 posted on 06/16/2015 2:41:01 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Buckeye McFrog
IMO, Twitter was invented specifically to allow phony mobs to shout down people like her.

I call it socialist networking.

It's like flash mobs for meme distribution.

22 posted on 06/16/2015 2:42:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: LibertarianLiz

Correction to my earlier post: “have” should be “shave”. Sorry.


23 posted on 06/16/2015 2:44:13 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: LibertarianLiz

Okay, I corrected something that didn’t need correcting. I am slowly walking away from the keyboard, as I do not seem to be competent at the moment.


24 posted on 06/16/2015 2:45:48 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: skeeter

That’s Racist!


25 posted on 06/16/2015 2:53:30 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Kaslin

LOL. 1975 called ........ They want their liberal mindset back.


26 posted on 06/16/2015 3:22:19 PM PDT by willgolfforfood
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To: Kaslin

Even if you are not allowed to speak your convictions, nobody can stop you from living them out.


27 posted on 06/16/2015 4:05:05 PM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: GeronL

“dissent and the rights of the minority used to be important, until the left took over.”

And then the right saw that it was such a good tool, they decided to try to destroy their dissenters as well. Fortunately the right isn’t quite as good at it.


28 posted on 06/16/2015 4:11:02 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools.)
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ESPN’s decision to award Jenner the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage

Arthur Ashe was white. lol

29 posted on 06/16/2015 5:39:02 PM PDT by TomServo
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Free speech and dissent are necessary components of societal improvement. As the author points out we don’t get ahead, don’t improve, don’t innovate when we all agree with each other.

But there’s something else as well. Free speech and dissent function as an important societal safety valve. People who believe they have the right to speak out, to be heard, generally don’t look towards more militant forms of expression.

The Left likes to claim that riots (and by extension larger societal violence) are the speech of the unheard. Yet today their MO is to increasingly constrict free speech and dissent, pushing ever more people into the “unheard” category.

It’s going to have predictable results.


30 posted on 06/17/2015 12:00:16 PM PDT by tanknetter
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