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2014-04-05 Home Front: Culture Wars

New wave of political correctness hits campuses

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Posted by Fred 2014-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Graphic honey addiction scenes, hyperactive runaway, prescription abuse, microagressive hedgehog, dominant Victorian white male character. Bee abuse.

Posted by Shipman 2014-04-05 01:56|| 2014-04-05 01:56|| Front Page Top

#2 In a society where academic degrees are a prerequisite for anything but a manual labor employment, this makes a lot of sense.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-05 04:27|| 2014-04-05 04:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Anything with Keynsianism in it should have a cult of marxism trigger warning.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-04-05 07:19|| 2014-04-05 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 At least Mao sent the intellectuals out to the country to do farm work with the peasants. Wonder how that little 'progressive' program would go over here?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-04-05 08:57|| 2014-04-05 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Anything with Keynsianism in it should have a cult of marxism trigger warning.

Yeah, what he said. Bad economics gives me spasms.

Posted by SteveS 2014-04-05 14:55|| 2014-04-05 14:55|| Front Page Top

#6 They're stealing Orwell's idea:

"Pre-revolutionary literature could only be subjected to ideological translation -- that is, alteration in sense as well as language. Take for example the well-known passage from the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, ...

It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping to the sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink."

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-04-05 16:20|| 2014-04-05 16:20|| Front Page Top

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