The rise of liberal intolerance in America

Financial Times ^

[bryan999]

It ought to be a triumphal moment for American liberalism. In the space of a few years gay marriage has been accepted, marijuana has been legalised, America has twice elected its first black president and may well be gearing up to elect its first woman. Yet the revival of political correctness on US campuses — and the increasingly shrill tone of much of the intellectual left — tells another story. Instead of championing free speech, the left is trying to shut it down. In the name of diversity, it demands conformity. At stake is the character of US democracy. If elite Ivy League schools cannot stand the heat, what kind of kitchen will it be?

Far from outgrowing race, the PC movement is entrenching it. Princeton students this month occupied the university president’s office demanding the name Woodrow Wilson — America’s 28th president and former head of Princeton — be scrubbed from campus. That included the prestigious Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, residential halls and a mural of him in the dining hall. Protesters also demanded “cultural competency training” for faculty members and the introduction of mandatory courses on marginalised peoples.

[laplata]

That’s right.

[laplata]

PROGRESSIVE = REPRESSIVE

[Talisker]

Sadly, when I read articles like this I am reminded that we have already witnessed the complete collapse of the rule of law in this country because of the monstrous Supreme Court rulings legitimizing Husseincare and rank homosexual perversity, the utter failure to address black riots in major cities, the total unwillingness to deter the illegal alien invasion, and the complicity of the Congressional abdication of responsibility for any sort of oversight of a tyrannical regime that is terrorizing us in every way imaginable. It is time to admit that the Constitutional Republic that was known as the United States of America is already dead and gone, never to return. Notwithstanding a too-late-to-matter “movement” of Trumpers shouting “Make America Great Again”. The skunks, crooks, and degenerates have completely taken over this benighted land.

So what are you doing on Free Republic? You think anyone needs your pathetic cry of "give up, all is lost"? Go suck your thumb somewhere else, loser. You're the Leftist's wet dream, and you're disgusting for it.

[Bon mots]

[ilovesarah2012]

LOL It all balances out.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Come a day these people will have to engage the real world. They will get cut down like ripened wheat by life and it’s challenges. Nobody wants to pay for others good times.

[griswold3]

Sadly. I agree with you. But what is the course of action we should take? The nation is run by 3-4 letter agencies. It matters not for which politician you vote.