My Medium daily update newsletter is full of feminist, progressive, black lives matter articles. I read all of them. I read all the comments on Reddit, and on HN.
Everything is labelled as racism and misogynistic and full of vitriol. There is no priority on sound and valid argument. Its all about feelings.
Maybe I live in a filter bubble, but I would love to find a good example of a liberal having a rationale debate with a Trump supporter about political correctness, black lives matter, etc, that doesn't revolve around something being inherently "racist" or simply ad-hominem attacks. I cannot find anything like this.
Obama is against political correctness.
> It’s not just sometimes folks who are mad that colleges are too liberal that have a problem. Sometimes there are folks on college campuses who are liberal, and maybe even agree with me on a bunch of issues, who sometimes aren’t listening to the other side, and that’s a problem too. I’ve heard some college campuses where they don’t want to have a guest speaker who is too conservative or they don’t want to read a book if it has language that is offensive to African-Americans or somehow sends a demeaning signal towards women. I gotta tell you, I don’t agree with that either. I don’t agree that you, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of view. I think you should be able to — anybody who comes to speak to you and you disagree with, you should have an argument with ‘em. But you shouldn’t silence them by saying, "You can’t come because I'm too sensitive to hear what you have to say." That’s not the way we learn either.
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/14/9326965/obama-political-correct...
This means that somewhere you have a white male SJW college student calling out a black president for betraying their cause.
The left has moved pretty-far-left if you ask me.
Edit: Is it fair to acknowledge that the people of the United States have a history of discriminating against minorities?
Yep!
These sensitivities are learned though. And being overly sensitive is bad for social cohesion.
A certain discipline needs to be enforced to allow society function.
The right is about tough love. The left is about coddling.
This is entirely 100% debatable though. This is the debate that should be happening IMHO. What are the side-effects if no one has to feel a bad feeling or ever be offended.
> Edit: Is it fair to acknowledge that the people of the United States have a history of discriminating against minorities?
Absolutely. But not for a long time.
We had a black president. A female can extremely close to becoming the president. Etc. Etc.
To argue that the system is against you because of your race is a hard argument to swallow now.
Do you think this was appropriate and fair to the accused: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattress_Performance_(Carry_Th...
Do you think the BLM riots were justified over this: http://nyti.ms/2ctkwYZ
Do you think police shoot more black people than white people?
Do you think SJWs consider the potential side effects of their approach?
E.g:
- Establishing diversity quotas causing resentment amongst others that "they were only hired because of diversity" even if they made it there on their own without a quota or special treatment?
- Making women, and minorities feel like the system is always against them and they will not succeed so they should not try.
I don't know if black people are shot more than white people, the thing that most people care about is that the police seems to be a lot more agressive when it comes to black people, even when unwaranted.
Lots of "SJWs" think about side effects, the reason that the conversations that they are having on twitter and reddit aren't more nuanced/allowing for "but"s etc. is that you are fighting an uphill battle with that kind of stuff on the internet. People like to pretend that the world has been taken over by PC-culture but the large majority on the internet still firmly hates Sjw's. This means that they don't really consider the internet a place for "policy"-discussion, but at best as a tool to spread the message.
(Ps, none of this may have been worded very clearly or convincingly, English isn't my first language)
