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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Katelew who wrote (142809)11/8/2019 8:34:48 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 356025
 
Twitter banning political ads is formal. Universities banning conservative speakers is formal.

Perhaps my word choice was not the best. In some Western countries hate speech is illegal. That's what I meant. Political correctness, whatever its faults, is still informal. Twitter is a private company. It makes its own rules. Likewise private universities. The whole notion of rights is about the role of the government and what limitations it puts on you and on others wrt you. It's not about what latitude your fellows give you.

I have not paid much attention to what is going on in universities in this regard. I find it detestable and choose not to watch. I am unaware of any university with a blanket banning of speakers just for being conservative. That's not the same thing as banning individuals that might trigger snowflakes or a riot. If you have examples of the former, please share.


How can you associate yourself with a political party and a media that foment this type of behavior?

I do not associate myself with any political party. Perhaps you missed my post just yesterday stressing that point. I have to hold my nose whenever I voted for either a D or R for president. And have even chosen neither.

As for fomenting, the extremes of the Republican Party have long been taking outrageous positions. The Democratic Party is now catching up. We have to be careful when we judge a party's rank and file by those standards. For the D's right now, you know full well that the energy is at the edges and that might well do them in this upcoming election. Most Democrats aren't socialists. Just as most Republicans aren't white nationalists. It's both wrong and inapt to judge only the other party by its extremes.
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