Oh bullshit. Explain to me why a run-of-the-mill conservative, Ben Shapiro, requires 100's of thousands of dollars worth of security to give a run-of-the-mill conservative talk on college campuses.
for two reasons:
1. absurd blow hard self important jackasses have always been trapped between the duality of their need to feel important and to preach their idiocy into the faces of other people who don't want to listen to it,
and
2. college aged humans have always been passionate about their beliefs in a way that often expresses itself in a way that is not conducive to civilized society and to which somebody always feels inordinately threatened.
ben shapiro feels like he needs to spends hundreds of thousands of dollars, good for him.
someone actually plowed a car into a group of people and killed a woman.
point being that violence is baked into the DNA of a certain worldview, and it sure as shit ain't liberalism.
this attempt to paint misguided youths getting too worked up in their protests against agents of oppression as some kind of burgeoning violent social upheaval is nothing more than a desperate attempt to deflect from the fact that the ideology these kids are opposing is actively killing people left and right and degrading the cultural, technological, and economic development of our species.
Or go read about what happened at Evergreen State college.
so what you're saying is that free speech only matters when it's something you morally agree with?
Or go read the polling results that show a precipitous decline in the support for the First Amendment among the Millennials. And this is truly scary.
it's also truly false, but don't let that get in the way of a good knicker twisting.
I think what a lot of people don't appreciate is that authoritarianism isn't about specifics, it's about broader ideas, like the willingness to use state violence to silence political opponents. And yes, this is rooted in academe, and while I think that this generation has been primed in secondary school for this sort of thing, the willingness to commit and support violence is rooted in their tertiary education.
given the long and sordid history of ring wing violence in the US this is just more of the same idiotic blame-others-for-shit-you-did rhetoric that's been stewing around in the cultural zeitgeist for the last 30 years.
this is exactly like homophobia.
homophobia is the condition of men being terrified that another man is going to treat them the same way that they treat women.
"the regressive left" is just a delusion concocted by the right wing to justified being scared that someone might do unto them as they've been doing unto others for the last 200 years.
Look, I think people outside the millennial generation can't really understand this, since this is a very generational phenomenon, so it is understandable that people outside the generation wouldn't believe it. It isn't typical of the liberals you interact with.
those damn kids these days!
the children now love luxury. they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
it's a brand new thing that is only just happening now! panic! everybody panic!
The problem, however, is that these people are becoming a louder and louder voice on college campuses, and as much as people don't want to admit this, this all bleeds into the surrounding culture. More importantly, these liberals are *outnumbered* and *outgunned*, and when push comes to shove, they are going to start a fight they cannot win. Hopefully, it won't come to that, but it starts with people on the left recognizing this problem.
you seem to see a concerted effort to shift the culture away from racist, sexism, oppression, and cultural regression as an attempt to start a military conflict.
there's nothing i could really say to that kind of nonsensical thinking.
