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Is political correctness going too far?

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As expected, there is much ado over the 18c thing from the left atm.

But is the gu'mint on the right track?
 
How is it that the left are called progressives, when they don't even believe in freedom of speech.

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like when men were free.

-- Ronald Reagan
 
Tink said:
How is it that the left are called progressives, when they don't even believe in freedom of speech.

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like when men were free.

-- Ronald Reagan
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I find that quote quite interesting Tink. It was his generation's children who DID change the world from being sheeple and are the ones opposing the fences that are being put up to corral us into an obedient mob.
 
imv, this needs to be changed to back on the ground and to the people -- not lawyers and governments.

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The West has lost its freedom of speech
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/threads/the-west-has-lost-its-freedom-of-speech.29402/page-39

The Australian Human Rights Commission
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/t...s-commission-a-national-disgrace.31515/page-3

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...mage-gallery/ee8a4ef1032a9da5a37c87ecb7f34c5c
 
I'm guessing this is one of the reasons we have curbs on behaviours these days. My mother would have stormed on stage and yanked all the kids off stage, but others maybe not.......

 
I don't think Bill Leak should have been hauled through the commission.

18C needs to be changed or removed completely.
 
SirRumpole said:
Political correctness gone mad ?



Are our university students so soft that they can't face reality ?



http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-28/monash-university-adopts-trigger-warning-policy/8390264

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Once upon a time Universities were supposed to be cradles of ideas and free expression. Of course once upon a time the students were expected pepper the course with field work and interaction with people and take a hit on the chin if they over stepped the boundaries of polite and respect.
 
To think these universities started from monasteries.

Based on our Christian faith and our heritage.

Hospitals were the same.
 
SirRumpole said:
Political correctness gone mad ?

Are our university students so soft that they can't face reality ?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-28/monash-university-adopts-trigger-warning-policy/8390264

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There's some uproar in the US recently when a uni professor assign an essay assignment asking students to discuss 9/11 from the perspective of the terrorists.

I'm guessing the professor won't be giving a A to anyone who think it's because of Islam, hating our freedom and values.
 
18C was put in at a later date, and imv, is not needed.
All discussions should be sorted on the ground, not through lawyers.

Freedom of speech has always been a part of our society on the ground.
We grew up respecting all people, men and women and children.

Our culture, our laws, our values are based on Christian values, cultural Christians.
Volunteers are a big part of our society.
It is about helping others, not necessarily on a monetary system.
We seem to have put a money value on people.
Manners etc.
Being grateful.

It has got to the point now where people are too afraid to speak, or jump in to help other people, which is not what this country was built on.

Being a traditionalist, I look back and I see the good of this country, of course there were bad in certain parts, but highlighting the bad over the good, is not realistic, imv.
These people seem to look back and see only bad.
Rather than bringing forward the beauty, we seem to be bringing forward the ugly.

That cartoon of the aborigines, whether black or white, if there is a problem, there is a problem.
These were cartoons, not professional paintings.
 
luutzu said:
There's some uproar in the US recently when a uni professor assign an essay assignment asking students to discuss 9/11 from the perspective of the terrorists.
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It's an excellent idea. Forces students to ask:

1- what on earth happened in the past to make Muslim extremists that angry? Is there anything that US forces did to provoke this violence? If not, then...

2- what sort of belief system permits/allows/encourages such extreme behaviour?

The power of belief is much, much greater than most people understand. Imagine actually thinking that you'd be rewarded in an afterlife for blowing up a building.
 
Gringotts Bank said:
It's an excellent idea. Forces students to ask:

1- what on earth happened in the past to make Muslim extremists that angry? Is there anything that US forces did to provoke this violence? If not, then...

2- what sort of belief system permits/allows/encourages such extreme behaviour?

The power of belief is much, much greater than most people understand. Imagine actually thinking that you'd be rewarded in an afterlife for blowing up a building.
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Yea, it's a great idea. Something a political science course ought to ask and debate on. But yea, heard some in the media etc. accused the professor of sympathising with the terrorists for asking students to do that.

Eisenhower's administration did ask the same question: Why do they hate US.

His State Dept. [or CIA, can't remember] came back and find that apparently they hate us because "they think" we prop up despots who suppresses them and their country's development; have military bases on their soil and stealing their oil.

Is this true?

Yea, of course it is.

So what's the solution? Get out?

No no... we should put more effort into telling them why what we're doing is actually good for them.


I'm not making that up.
 
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