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Freedom of Expression and the Flight from Reason
Quillette ^ | 01/13/2018 | Piers Benn

Posted on 01/13/2018 3:52:29 PM PST by tbw2

There is reason to believe that an increasing number of young people regard unbridled free speech as a threat, showing themselves to be in the grip of rigid and intolerant ways of thinking about disagreement. But what are the intellectual tendencies behind this new intolerance, and how do they creep into popular discourse? The following list is not comprehensive, but nonetheless seems to me to cover the key problems.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: culture; politics

1 posted on 01/13/2018 3:52:29 PM PST by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Key problems are:

- They got whatever they wanted growing up

- Got taught by Liberals


2 posted on 01/13/2018 4:19:05 PM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 ( Thank GOD Hillary didn't get elected!)
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To: tbw2

>>There is reason to believe that an increasing number of young people regard unbridled free speech as a threat,

[Harvest of Despair - Music Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxwIKqqEd2k

Their handlers never like having their errors contradicted.

Same Ol’


3 posted on 01/13/2018 5:55:02 PM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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