Category Archives: freespeech

Failing to Learn from History

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The Kent State Massacre: The Day Our Government Killed Innocent Protesters On A College Campus (theurbantwist.com) Tamir Rice’s mother honors Kent State May 4 shooting victims at ‘Black Lives Matter’ commemoration (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Donald Trump calls California protesters ‘thugs, criminals’ (bilbaoya.com) When I was getting my Master’s degree in English Literature, and earlier when I was taking literature classes as I was getting my Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing, one of my primary areas of focus was 20th century American women’s poetry. My favourite…

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Millennials Aren’t Whiny, You’re Just a Narcissistic Prick

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Bill Clinton Tells Millennials They’re What’s Wrong With America, Only Hillary Can Fix It (inquisitr.com) The 2016 enthusiasm gap (politico.com) As the presidential primaries wind down here, a lot of pixels are being spilled over the similarities between the 2008 and 2016 Democratic nomination contests. A lot of Bernie Sanders supporters are complaining about the role that superdelegates play in the Democratic primary, and how the primary calendar being front-loaded with southern states makes it easy for more conservative Democrats like Hillary Clinton to take…

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It’s Not a War Zone

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Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, And The College Mental Health Crisis Media Coverage Ignores (Media Matters for America) Officer in viral classroom takedown fired (All In with Chris Hayes) One of the main influences in both my teaching philosophy and teaching performance is the bad experiences I’ve had as a student  with horrible teachers and unscrupulous administrators. Although I had a number of advantages over the years that most people aren’t lucky enough to get, I also went through things that no human being — and…

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Sit On My Face and Tell Me You Love Free Speech

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The UK’s sexist new pornography restrictions  aren’t just an act of state censorship, but could be the first step towards something even worse (The Independent) U.K. Sex Workers Sitting on Each Other’s Faces for Their Right to Fist (Gawker) If you study human sexuality for any length of time, particularly fetish culture, you quickly gain an appreciation for the seemingly limitless ways in which we humans experience erotic enjoyment. I’ve often argued that the infamous “Rule 34” of the Internet, that if something exists then…

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Doing Bullies’ Work For Them

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AZ gov vetoes ‘religious freedom’ bill, Ohio lawmakers abandon kindred bill (examiner.com) School will allow boy to bring My Little Pony backpack (USA Today) We liberals, or at least the majority of us, often get unfairly maligned as being some kind of “thought police” trying to tell people what they should or shouldn’t think. I think I can speak for the vast majority of liberals, and hopefully people as a whole, when I say that what goes on in your head is no one’s business…

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