Free speech is so last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’ (2014)

Spectator ^ | 11 November 2014 | Brendan O'Neill

[Bryanw92]

>>Fine. Don’t care. I’m not in it to win, just to make a space for my point of view. Those lurkers out there who may feel the same but didn’t dare say, let them know they are not alone.

And in the Progressive mind, all points of view are equally just shades of gray.

[tbw2]

There are liberals who want to excise the language of all words in the hope of eliminating those concepts from the human psyche. In these regards, they are mimicking 1984. Another way of saying this:

From “In Conquest Born”, a science fiction novel
Harkur: You can remove undesirable emotions from society’s repertoire by careful manipulation of cultural trends. You can revise your language so that a man has no means of expressing that which is forbidden; lacking a familiar label, he will eventually lose his grasp of the concept itself. You cannot, however, wholly excise emotions from a man’s character and still expect him to be a complete human being.

[tbw2]

I can’t remember who said it, but it was along the lines of “when SJW shout down and hector into silence the moderates who might agree with them and their own allies who are attacked for slight deviation from dogma, the only people left to speak on either side are the most vicious, most vocal and often least capable of compromise”.

[A_perfect_lady]

Nonesense, you disagree with a Progressive, it's "hate speech." Look, you can try to cow me into obedience by calling me a liberal, but I'm still going to stand here and say, I'm not going to let a man tell me how to handle pregnancy, just like I would not tell man how to handle being on the front lines.

That's my point here, and my only point. You can say whatever you like to me, but you still won't get me to change this stance.

[A_perfect_lady]

I mean, “nonsense.” (oops)

[Bryanw92]

>> but I’m still going to stand here and say, I’m not going to let a man tell me how to handle pregnancy,

Then don’t let a man get you pregnant! There’s a lot more to a human baby than your pregnancy. A life is created, so its about more than your inconvenience. Until you realize that, I hope that you are using birth control properly so you don’t have to murder one of your inconvenient pregnancies.

[A_perfect_lady]

Whatever. You have free speech, so exercise it all you want. I’m just saying, no man has any business telling me what to put my body through. I never did it to them, and I never let them do it to me. (I’m 50 now, so it’s no longer an issue. But for the young women out there, whatever you decide, I sympathize.)

[mjp]

A mob of furious feministic Oxford students, all robotically uttering the same stuff about feeling offended,

just the fact that a libtard exists is offensive to me

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Yep, I see your point and that’s where I am. I’m against it, but not my decision - legal or not, disgusting or not. I’m a sinner and need to repent my own bad ways. One sin I often carry is my indifference about liberals not reproducing.

[Fred Hayek]

They go and get a PMP certificate and run engineering firms instead. “Don’t know about engineering, your company, or event he industry you serve, but I want to run things. I have a PMP.”

I work for a major engineering company and I have to report to a manager two levels above me who fits this very description. She has no idea of the nature of the work that I do, or of what my designers do. She can though sling buzzwords like monkeys sling poo.