Replace “Scientologist” with “Muslim”, reread the piece and determine if it still sounds reasonable, especially if your argument relies, out of hand, on dismissing a #NotAllMuslims argument. Either judge the person as an individual, or don’t, but don’t cherry pick. I don’t find Scientology to be compelling and their…
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If you take the concept of the free marketplace of ideas as emblematic of liberalism, then standing up and talking over the top of the speaker is illiberal because its purpose isn’t to challenge what is said, but to disrupt the speaker’s ability to say it. If we believe that speech should be challenged through reason,…
CNN recently ran an article talking about how Democrats are swearing more in an effort to energize and drum up support. Now, I don’t care if they drop fuck as every other word like they’ve got a bad case of Tourrette’s, if that’s the best idea Democrats can come up with leading up to 2018, they will get crushed, and…
You and the author of the piece are not the sole arbiters of if “reason has prevailed” or not. Things have to be equal. For everyone. It doesn’t matter if someones feelings get hurt that someone spoke somewhere to people as an invited guest. I agree that the world is not perfect. But if this continues it will…
So wait...let me get this straight.
So its not a free speech concern for a university to permit a violent mob to shut down speech because the speaker is free to speak elsewhere? Interesting theory. Now apply it to something like the BDS movement and tell me your thoughts.
That’s not the point. It doesn’t matter if he was “hurt” by it or not. Violent mobs should not be able to shut down events that they disagree with. Period. Full stop. The implications are far reaching.
I agree completely. It’s disgusting how stigmatised mental health issues are and how much pressure is put on men to keep their feelings and emotions under the surface to be taken seriously both in their personal and professional life. Men often aren’t raised to have proper coping strategies or feel like their emotions…
I mean, the town shares the same name as one of the Great Lakes. The person who gets paid to write articles for a living should know how to spell Erie, PA.
Gun here.
or that he actually fucked that guy’s mom.
This again? Kirkman said it wasn’t Louis CK and also gave Jezebel a whole bunch of shit about it.
Kirkman flat out said it wasn’t CK and then she blasted Jezebel to hell and back for using her story to insinuate that it was. Then Doug Stanhope admitted that he was the guy in the story.
Not that Gawker ever admitted that they were wrong or addressed it in any way, which is why people still believe this even after…
“nobody saw her jump”
“no trauma consistent with hitting the water at a high impact”
I can’t believe this got 74 stars (and counting).
I understand the impulse given her station, race, and religious affiliation, but without verifiable evidence, believing such based on gut feeling alone isn’t prudent. That’s how conspiracy theorists think. Feelings before facts is a big part of what’s wrong with culture right now. No need to add to it.
No, they BELIEVE it was a suicide. And even then that’s just the word from some reporter at the Post.
I don’t believe it’s a suicide. She was a successful black Muslim woman in a position of authority. That will poss off both racists and sexists.
You mean the ones originating from an anonymous person saying that their friend/s told them it happened, as reported on Gawker* by (of course) Jordan Sargent? It seems that is what RB was referring to when she said “I’ve heard so many stories”.
From what I recall, there was nothing more than rumors (nobody actually…