{"id":6473,"date":"2016-04-29T06:44:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T06:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/29\/has-political-correctness-gone-too-far\/"},"modified":"2016-04-29T06:44:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T06:44:25","slug":"has-political-correctness-gone-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/29\/has-political-correctness-gone-too-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/04\/27\/pc-mob-shuts-down-forum-that-asked-has-political-corrrectness-gone-too-far\/\">Apparently not<\/a> for the cry bullies and cowardly administrators at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">UMass-Amherst students this week threw a mass temper tantrum to derail a forum that challenged the speech police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">\u201cThe Triggering: Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far?\u201d featured three guests: American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, journalist Milo Yiannopoulos and comedian Steven Crowder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">But they barely got a chance to speak. Protesters broke in to swear, name-call and throw fits. (Isn\u2019t it ironic that this is what \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d means in practice?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">With shouts of \u201cF\u2013k you! F\u2013k you!\u201d and \u201cKeep your hate speech off this campus\u201d \u2014 not to mention \u201cGo home!\u201d \u2014 the kids of course proved the critics\u2019 point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">\u201cThere was not a 10- to 20-second period during [the event] where there wasn\u2019t an interruption,\u201d said senior Nicholas Pappas, one of the panel\u2019s organizers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Still, Sommers managed the score of the night. Interrupted by a scream of \u201cstop talking to us like children,\u201d she shot back: \u201cThen stop acting like a child.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Sounds like the cure for today\u2019s college ills.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">The Decline of the West proceeds apace. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently not for the cry bullies and cowardly administrators at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst: UMass-Amherst students this week threw a mass temper tantrum to derail a forum that challenged the speech police. \u201cThe Triggering: Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far?\u201d featured three guests: American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, journalist Milo Yiannopoulos and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/29\/has-political-correctness-gone-too-far\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}