Most Americans Feel Silenced by Political Correctness - Thank a Democrat

TruthRevolt ^ | 10/31/2017 | Trey Sanchez

[ForYourChildren]

The Divided States of America!

Political correctness is stifling freedom in the United States and it’s making people refrain from expressing their political beliefs.

According to the Cato Institute’s 2017 Free Speech and Tolerance Survey of 2,300 U.S. adults:

71% Americans believe that political correctness has silenced important discussions our society needs to have. The consequences are personal — 58% of Americans believe the political climate prevents them from sharing their own political beliefs.

These feelings are strongest among Republicans (73%) and independents (58%). Unsurprisingly for Democrats, 53 percent don’t feel any need to censor their political thoughts. 

Though nearly 60 percent believe even unpopular opinions should be allowed in the public square, 40 percent wish the government would pass laws to stop perceived “hate speech.” The vast majority, nearly 80 percent of respondents, said it's “morally unacceptable” to say offensive things to different races or religions.

But what constitutes hate speech? No one agrees, according to the poll. A majority of blacks and Hispanics believes that free speech only protects majority opinions, but not those of minorities. Those groups also believe that having the right to say something racist is as bad as having racist views. And most feel that people expressing offensive opinions have bad intentions.

Check out this mixed bag of opinions on free speech:

• 51% of staunch liberals say it’s “morally acceptable” to punch Nazis.
• 53% of Republicans favor stripping U.S. citizenship from people who burn the American flag.
• 51% of Democrats support a law that requires Americans use transgender people’s preferred gender pronouns.
• 65% of Republicans say NFL players should be fired if they refuse to stand for the anthem.
• 58% of Democrats say employers should punish employees for offensive Facebook posts.
• 47% of Republicans favor bans on building new mosques.

 

• 59% of liberals say it’s hate speech to say transgender people have a mental disorder; only 17% of conservatives agree.
• 39% of conservatives believe it’s hate speech to say the police are racist; only 17% of liberals agree.
• 80% of liberals say it’s hateful or offensive to say illegal immigrants should be deported; only 36% of conservatives agree.
• 87% of liberals say it’s hateful or offensive to say women shouldn’t fight in military combat roles, while 47% of conservatives agree.
• 90% of liberals say it’s hateful or offensive to say homosexuality is a sin, while 47% of conservatives agree. 

 

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[z3n]

Stop calling it political correctness. There’s nothing correct about it. It’s political and it’s subjective, and it is EFFECTIVELY CENSORSHIP

[DoughtyOne]

PC > BROWNSHIRT < DEMOCRAT

[Vaquero]

I say what I think. I could care less what the sob sisters think.

Thank goodness for Trump. He tells it like it is.

[JusPasenThru]

I’m afraid to speak the truth, especially about black racism and gay fascism.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Fortunately Donald Trump is in the process of smashing that paradigm.

[loveliberty2]

See this topic already discussed here.

[laplata]

PC > BROWNSHIRT < DEMOCRAT

>><<

Or:

PROGRESSIVE = REPRESSIVE

[bgill]

Stop calling it political correctness. There’s nothing correct about it. It’s political and it’s subjective, and it is EFFECTIVELY CENSORSHIP

That.

I will continue to exercise my freedom of speech daily.

[laplata]

Political correctness was designed by the communists to control the narrative and it has worked. Thank God it is being exposed as a tool of tyranny.

[circlecity]

"58% of Americans believe the political climate prevents them from sharing their own political beliefs."

And if this is true then it taints all the other statistics referred to later in the article.

[Carl Vehse]

"Most Americans Feel Silenced by Political Correctness"

Only the testicularly challenged.

The rest are demanding Demonicrats, especially from the Obama kakistocracy, be tried, convicted, sentenced and then publicly hanged for murder, crimes against humanity, and treason. Afterwards we can deal with the RINOcrats.

[Biggirl]

That is why the internet has become a success story. It has become a highway to say stuff online that you cannot say in public.

[Biggirl]

With the help of one President Donald J. Trump.

[Biggirl]

Started the day decided to run for the White House.

[mosesdapoet]

Sanchez is only half right. It’s not just “Thank a Democrat”.
It’s Thank a Democrat Pervert.

[laplata]

That’s right. May God bless and keep DJT safe.

[kearnyirish2]

So true - and that is why the Dems seek to control it as well. They already control content on many sites.

[I want the USA back]

We have been silenced. If we used our names, we would lose our jobs and be targeted by radical hate-filled leftists.

[DoughtyOne]

Agreed, but I refuse to play along with ‘progressive’.

They’re Liberals and Leftists, Communists and Socialists.

Heck, now they’re even terrorists.