Is this the end of liberalism?

[useless]

Liberalism is stealing our freedom and manhood plus Liberalism is dying.

And on top of that, here's a 10 page cartoon download.

It was liberalism that allowed women to transcend gender boundries, it was liberalism that allowed black people to transcend the racist laws created by conservatives, it was liberalism that allow lgbt to actually be accepted whilst conservatives desperately try to fight a losing battle.

 

[gay_Aleks]

I'm afraid that's exactly what he thinks is "stealing our freedom and manhood".

 

[aelf]

Says a lot about Southeast Asia that people who think that way feel very comfortable being here.

 

[useless]

I'm afraid that's exactly what he thinks is "stealing our freedom and manhood".

I'm sure he'd like to go back to a place and time when those groups knew their place and didn't make any noise

 

[aelf]

He's in that place and time.

 

[useless]

Well i mean he wants america to regress

 

[Akka]

I also prefer to have separate bathrooms, and I don't see the big deal with this.
You realize you're pretty much confirming the caricatures made here with deraling a thread and being pretty rabid for something so trivial ?

 

[Grisu]

do the title is about liberalism, but the op suddenly talks about the left? which one is dying again?

 

[warpus]

Bipedalism

 

[NovaKart]

This is the email that caused the outrage:

https://www.thefire.org/email-from-...-college-yale-students-on-halloween-costumes/

It's all very reasonable and non inflammatory and not flippant towards the issue. That students got so upset over this really says something is wrong with those people. I don't think this is really something specific to this generation except some of the words they use are especially infantalizing. Like when they talk about safe spaces. Apparently they feel very threatened because someone wrote an email about Halloween costumes that they don't agree with.

 

[civman110]

This is the email that caused the outrage:

https://www.thefire.org/email-from-...-college-yale-students-on-halloween-costumes/

It's all very reasonable and non inflammatory and not flippant towards the issue. That students got so upset over this really says something is wrong with those people. I don't think this is really something specific to this generation except some of the words they use are especially infantalizing. Like when they talk about safe spaces. Apparently they feel very threatened because someone wrote an email about Halloween costumes that they don't agree with.

Yup, this is truly looney tunes, but it's even more than that.

After they formed a mob over 1 e-mail they didn't like, several lefties started having mental break downs over several different infantile issues. One flew off the handle because the teacher didn't remember her name out of 500 people, another was hyperventilating because she had to hear opinions she didn't like, therefore denying her a "safe space." Another wanted Halloween costumes banned.

It's crazy to think that this is what Universities have become. These people can't even function, but they are lock step in line with liberal concepts like "micro aggressions, "trigger" words, or phrases, "safe spaces," "virtue signalling," "cultural appropriation," etc.

This isn't going to end well for liberals. What do they do? Fight back against these lunatics and destroy the ideologies they created? Or allow the crazies to light the whole hut on fire and dictate what everyone can do and say? So far they have chosen to allow them to dictate thought and speech.

This is going to get worse, so much worse.

 

[Hygro]

This is the email that caused the outrage:

https://www.thefire.org/email-from-...-college-yale-students-on-halloween-costumes/

It's all very reasonable and non inflammatory and not flippant towards the issue. That students got so upset over this really says something is wrong with those people. I don't think this is really something specific to this generation except some of the words they use are especially infantalizing. Like when they talk about safe spaces. Apparently they feel very threatened because someone wrote an email about Halloween costumes that they don't agree with.

It's all play acting. When you've read too many blog posts by people articulating the theoretical value of safe spaces etc, your 19-y/o self wants to try it out yourself. To borrow from Louis CK, it's like when a kid hears something mean and repeats it to another kid only to find out it's mean and they don't want to do it. The difference is that there's a reinforcing group so give them a few years. It simultaneously helps the rest of us but doesn't help them that their cause is mostly good.

Once they learn that society functions best when the cool people are cool about letting people know when they're uncool, they'll stop trying to stifle free speech that agrees with them.

This isn't going to end well for liberals. What do they do? Fight back against these lunatics and destroy the ideologies they created? Or allow the crazies to light the whole hut on fire; run the Universities and dictate what everyone can do and say? So far they have chosen to allow them to dictate thought and speech.

This is going to get worse, so much worse.

They're already behind the curve, so who cares. The only danger is if it becomes the default conservative position for kids born ten years before and after today, which given American social trends, is very real. At that point expect 3 generations of this stuff, mostly coming from younger white folk.

 

[civman110]

They're already behind the curve, so who cares. The only danger is if it becomes the default conservative position for kids born ten years before and after today, which given American social trends, is very real. At that point expect 3 generations of this stuff, mostly coming from younger white folk.

Conservatives don't believe any of this stuff. They have always said it's crazy and would lead to these kinds of idiotic situations.

You actually have Yale students in their late teens, early 20's that are unable to dress themselves for Halloween, or go out in public without a "safe space" free of alternate opinions. I thought people went to universities for an education, not to argue over trivial things.

 

[useless]

Do you think people should be able to wear blackface, even if they aren't black?

 

[civman110]

Do you think people should be able to wear blackface, even if they aren't black?

No one wanted to do that. The e-mail makes that very clear.

People were concerned about "cultural appropriation" ie. A white person dressing up as a black superhero, or not even cultural appropriation, but simply wearing a costume that "triggers" someone for whatever reason.

 

[useless]

What's wrong with trigger warnings? They have a legitimate place in society.

 

[civman110]

What's wrong with trigger warnings? They have a legitimate place in society.

Lol, Yale?

You have adults that are unable to dress themselves for Halloween.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

What's wrong with trigger warnings? They have a legitimate place in society.

Do they? I'd never even heard of them until the last year or so. I suppose they have a legitimate place on guns though.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Do you think people should be able to wear blackface, even if they aren't black?

Yes, they certainly should be ABLE to. Hardly anyone will want to though.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

What's wrong with trigger warnings? They have a legitimate place in society.

Sure. They have a place for warning war veterans, or rape victims, or other people that might justifiably be able to lay claim to having legitimate PTSD about content that might not be appropriate for them. They do not have a place as a label that people demand be placed everywhere because somebody might be (GASP, SHOCK!) offended, which is how it's getting used now. People who should be adults behaving like children throwing a tantrum because somebody said something they don't agree with is not an appropriate use of the concept of trigger warnings.