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    Quote Originally Posted by kimwy66:
    And where did you learn to troll? Enquiring minds would like to know, primarily so one can avoid such a poor teacher.

    For those that follow the daily drama created by the illiberal left, Lionel Shriver has written an OpEd for the New York Times.

    Although he focuses on the millennial generation, as can be seen on this forum it can also taint the thinking of older people. Maybe it's the new form of midlife crisis, instead of sleeping with a twenty-something, blokes with receding hairlines and beer bellies become online allies boldly supporting their favourite blue-haired millennial as they proclaim their multiple inter-sectional oppressed identities.

    Unfortunately these slow-thinking illiberals are about to reap what they have sown. We already have Brexit, chances are there will be a Trump presidency. Merkel is facing crushing defeats in Germany, Marie Le Pen continues to push the National Front to the fore in France. When you stop listening to the legitimate complaints of the electorate, when you choose instead to falsely label them as racist, sexist,, colonialist, transphobic, white-privileged, you push people to the groups willing to listen. Currently that is the alt-right. And as, contrary to the warped thinking of some, the disenfranchised are in the majority, the politics of multiple western countries are going to be ruled by ultra-conservatives. Well done.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/op...llennials.html
    Don't like my joke? Get a freaking sense of humour, Twerp.
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    An excellent write up countering the point people are trying to make with regards to PC speech.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ump?CMP=twt_gu

    This nails it on the head.

    The anti-PC liberals were so focused on leftists on Twitter that for months they gravely underestimated the seriousness of the real threat to liberal discourse. It was not coming from women, people of colour, or queer people organising for their civil rights, on campus or elsewhere. It was coming from @realdonaldtrump, neo-Nazis, and far-right websites such as Breitbart.
    Anyone who still thinks millennials on campuses are such a big threat, all I can say is, you've been suckered. You've been countering the one side, while the other side just kept on shifting the goalpost of their mythical creature. We react to millennial asking for a trigger warning with scorn and claim it to be the end of civilization, while hidden underneath it all, it's the far-right who have plans for a much grander scheme. Concepts such as trigger warnings, safe-spaces, cultural appropriation are nothing new. Some will take a foothold in other institutions while some will fade, but overall, they will pose no threat to our existence.

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    So who wants to take free speech away? Talk about political correctness.

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...67993036754944


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