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National Coalition Calls for Campus Censorship of "Offensive" Speech (washingtonpost.com)
schwit1 writes with this opinion piece from Eugene Volokh, who teaches free speech law at UCLA School of Law, about the push to ban "offensive" speech and censor websites on campus. He writes: "A large coalition of advocacy groups has asked the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights to pressure colleges to (1) punish students for their speech and (2) block student access to certain Web sites — especially sites such as Yik Yak, which allow students to anonymously post their views..... Yet another example of today's Anti-Free Speech Movement for American universities — unfortunately, one that fits well into the Education Department's attitudes. Fortunately, courts have firmly rejected these kinds of calls to restrict college student speech, though the OCR and the college administrations it pressures can get away with a lot of restrictions until the lawsuits are actually brought."
Bullshit. This coalition is not "liberals", it probably covers a large range of political backgrounds. If you look at attitudes historically, left leaning political views are very often more tolerant than right leaning views. Using liberal/conservative labels just glosses over differences, those terms are more commonly used by people with a strict binary view of politics.
The free-speech movement at Berkeley in the 70s is today mistakenly labeled as a liberal/hippy anomaly, but it was from a broad coalition of student clubs and groups of all types and leanings because the restrictions on free speech affected every single student.
This anti free speech trend by some students is a new phenomena in some ways. However it is not a liberal trend, not a conservative trend, etc.
Your right, he should have said the special curse of the homosexual male. Although MSM (Males who have sex with males) represent about 4% of the male population in the United States, in 2010, MSM accounted for 78% of new HIV infections among males and 63% of all new infections. (Source: CDC) It is the nature of the MSM sex act that causes susceptibility to the virus. You should never let something like a little truth get in the way of a good ad hominem attack on someone for not being PC, eh?
Plus ... disparaging Buckley for not bowing to PC claptrap is like disparaging Gandi for being to passive, it was arguably his core trait and why people did and do still pay attention to him.
Skeptic is the wrong word to describe one that rejects science and makes pseudoscientific (re: false) claims.
That's not skepticism.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.