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Re:Liberal intolerance is on the rise on America’s college c... by intolerant9000 on Sunday February 14, 2016 @03:02PM (#11099724)
AKA SJWs.

The same people that inflict "white women are the problem" diversity seminars on unfortunate companies like GitHub.[1]

1. http://mynym.blogspot.com/2016/02/github-states-white-women-...

Re:Liberal intolerance is on the rise on America’s college c... by bontaq on Sunday February 14, 2016 @03:30PM (#11099847)
Yeah man it's definitely those spooky SJWs who think colleges should prohibit racist/sexist speech. I'm sure if you asked an average person they wouldn't respond similarly.

Honestly surprised it's only 43% of people think colleges have the right to ban extreme speakers.

Re:Liberal intolerance is on the rise on America’s college c... by tumdum_ on Sunday February 14, 2016 @03:55PM (#11099960)
Did you read the article?

feminism critic Suzanne Venker, former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and Narendra Modi, now the Indian prime minister.

I can understand that some people don't share views of these speakers, but to call them extreme and ban them? To me this is strange.

Re:Liberal intolerance is on the rise on America’s college c... by letitleak on Sunday February 14, 2016 @06:38PM (#11100570)
The wording and implication of these questions have very different meaning to me today than they did in the 1980-1990s, I can only imagine the 1960s..

Now it is entirely clear to me that if a high profile speaker comes, it is not that they are merely being reimbursed for travel expenses with a few extravagances, nice dinners.. maybe a meaningless honorary certificate.

Being politically controversial and then cashing in on the speech circuit is now an openly discussed career plan. Paying for the high profile but educationally useless speeches is one way that even average colleges are moving from public/educational spaces into transaction centers for prestige and accolades.

If you rephrase the question to be clear that no one is being payed for their presence, then I could care less who shows up to speak of their own volition.

But all of those choices are now in a bundled product where you must pay the 4 year sticker price, so what you don't like will need to be handled by their ever growing PR-agency, oops I really meant to say administration..

Re:Liberal intolerance is on the rise on America’s college c... by loki49152 on Sunday February 14, 2016 @04:30PM (#11100096)
The problem is that campus SJWs declare any view other than their own racist, sexist views to be racist, sexist hate speech. It has always been dishonest but now is reaching the level of delusion that turns into vicious psychosis.