Study: racial prejudice a 'reliable predictor' you're about to hear about free speech from people who hate it

[Lancelot1066]

@emo_pinata

I’m telling you that marginalized groups have never had the same free speech of the majority.

I neither said that nor implied it. I did say that marginalized groups gained the voices they do have because the principle of free speech was accepted by many as an important part of a functioning democracy.
Many of the ideas we now hold as vital, such as LGBTQ rights and Racial Equality were once considered offensive and disruptive by the majority, and were only allowed to be discussed because of the principal of freedom of speech.

@emo_pinata

There is a long history of legal abuses, violence, and propaganda by the majority to silence the minority.

I agree, what honest person doesn’t?

@emo_pinata

In fact, the modern use of the term “Political Correctness” is a piece of conservative propaganda that has created an easy strawman to completely dismiss any concerns a minority might express - and you have right here used it as a strawman in a multitude of ways.

I am now apparently a conservative operative spreading propaganda. I must admit that I’m distressed at this turn of events, and my family will be very disappointed.
I disagree with labeling political correctness as conservative propaganda. First of all it is not just conservatives who have spoken against it, many of us old liberals have as well. Also I feel that using the loaded word “propaganda” with its associations with fascism and suppression was an attempt to tar me with the same views, You also used the word “propaganda” in your previous sentence regarding the violent abuse of minorities, thereby tying me into those crimes as well.
Why the vitriolic use of language?
I also must object to the term “strawman” which you used twice in your sentence. This is an overused term used to shut down discussions without bothering to use examples, plus I can’t help feeling that your saying that I used it “in a multitude of ways” is needlessly hyperbolic.

@emo_pinata

Calling a racist statement racist is not “losing an opportunity to counter a bad argument,” someone hearing that what they believe is offensive because of the history oppression of minorities that then feels like they were the ones harmed are at fault (not the one pointing that out to them), and literally no one is “clinging to sullen silence.”

I don’t think that this statement has anything at all with anything I said. If this is what you heard when you read what I wrote, then I can only assure you that you are hearing someone else voice. [quote=“emo_pinata, post:43, topic:100582”]
People are really vocal with their viewpoint,
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Not always. Sometimes they just feel marginalized until they can vote a racist buffoon into office.[quote=“emo_pinata, post:43, topic:100582”]
and as that speech is left unfettered they become even more brazen about it - that’s why there is an increase of hate crimes associated with the rise of people screeching about political correctness.
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I’m not sure you can directly correlate hate crimes with “screeching” about political correctness.
When I was 8 years old a group of adults, including my father, told me that “Jungle Bunny” was a baseball player’s nickname and that I should yell it out whenever he was at bat to distract him (he was on the visiting team). I didn’t find out what I had actually done for a few more years, and I have felt ashamed ever since.
I had taken part in a hate crime, and I had no way to expunge it.
I am very seriously apposed to any form of hate crime, you can choose to believe me or you can choose to disbelieve me. You have that power, not me.
I find your implication, deliberate or not, that my “screeching” about political correctness equates to my willingness to condone or participate in any form of hate crime to be personally distressing and humiliating.
I need to take a nap.