Hello, there is a link in the story to another story about an incident at a university where a complaint was made about a young woman raising her hand in a debate. She was subjected to a vote of exclusion as a result of the debate but the vote failed as the majority didn't agree with the complaint. Later in the same meeting she was subjected to a complaint that she had shaken her head during a discussion because she disagreed with a point someone had made.

Is this the incident that you are referring to? It didn't seem to feature old white men to me - but I may have misread it or misunderstood, could you help?

Yes that's the incident I was referring to when I said that "people will find a balance eventually", because indeed, it seems to be used in some circumstances to silence people (well, most rules are, but it's particularly ironic in this circumstance).

Funny. Against any other demographic this would be seen as an ageist, racist, and sexist comment. Do you feel good about it?

I'm an old white man.. and it's punching up, not punching down.

And you, sir, are becoming the problem you're complaining about. Don't kid yourself that it's fine for you to do because of the targets you're choosing.

It is far from being a level playing field. The message varies greatly depending on the sender, receiver and context, right? I think it's quite OK to call out your fellow stereotype when they're being dicks.

And while we're at it, since this thread is going down into "this is reverse racism": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M

> It is far from being a level playing field.

So that makes it fair to unfairly stereotype others?

> I think it's quite OK to call out your fellow stereotype when they're being dicks.

Call out your fellow [members of a group that contains you] when they're being dicks, sure. We need that. But don't stereotype them to do it - we don't need that.

It's more than that. http://bit.ly/1sLUaQP

Justice would be 'punching wrong' regardless of up or down.