(07-06-2020 08:25 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote: [ -> ]I am saying that the supposed frequency of them are overblown - either they happen with less frequency than purported or the outcomes are less severe (somehow U Chicago reinstating the professor is a small detail).
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I can continue to pull these out one by one --- what number will suffice for you to say there is not an issue?
How about the cancel of the sister of the Atlanta cop from her job?
The other issue is that this is getting *past* the 'poor student is offended at the professor's use of a word'.
We have people making an active effort to dox incoming students and having schools rescind acceptances.
I can point to executives at companies being canned for 'All lives manner'. Yes, all lives do matter, no matter whom they might be. If one is to be hunted for that expression, **** the hunters in all honesty.
Yes, if you support that type of Maoist behavior and enforced homogeneity of thought, I can see why one would think there is 'not a lot there'.
I mean, it is now the left's prerogative to cancel the jobs and lives of people whom dare hold what are to them 'offending opinions'. I can tell you from history, there is no good outcome of this. In the slightest.
Let's flip this around. Assume a more 'conservative' nation. How would you enjoy the active hunting of of people for expressing the thought 'Black Lives Matter'? I would find that reprehensible as well. And as thought conformist as I find all the leftie brownshirts doing that these days. At least in that my view on those actions is 'content neutral'; but the kicker is that from the progressive angle those actions are justified in one direction, yet reprehensible in the direction counter to their viewpoint.
If the last statement is incorrect, then why the very public urge to put on the brownshirt uniform at all from the leftist camp? Why try to minimize the social outcome (as you just did) ?
I really dont care if the effect truly is an inconsequential as you speak. I dont think that, I think it more of a cop out/justification (its just a small leak in the line, son. No bother...). Even if it is small in number, inconsequenstial, the social damage to the fabric is there -- no matter how small.
Again, lets flip it around. Let's assume one progressive got canned for saying in a public forum 'I am socialist'. I doubt the left would buy the case that 'its just one case, its inconsequential'. For any *single* case. And if the right as a mindset said 'dont mind that one instance, "the frequency of them are overblown - either they happen with less frequency than purported or the outcomes are less severe", do you really think your team would sit down, ponder it, and say, well golly gee willikers you might be right?
But again, the numbers of people losing jobs and livelihoods isnt one, or five. It is a seriously accelerating issue. But your statement of "frequency of them are overblown - either they happen with less frequency than purported or the outcomes are less severe" seems to be a serious cop-out, almost a 'let the kids play' thing.
I mean, I have actually lived in countries where people are persecuted for political beliefs. Not ever a good situation, either at the point of the persecution, and never a healthy ultimate outcome.
The simple fact is that you dont have bands of rightists consistently and very publicly pulling up photos and twitter and aiming at leftists to cancel them. Yet.
If that is a societal norm you want to defend, well, fk that. I have seen it first hand before. It sucks rocks. Royally. But your side seems hell bent on normalizing that grotesque as **** behavior.