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The Rise of “Bias Response Teams” on Campus

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The very name of these teams implies at least three erroneous conceptions:

1. That the teams themselves are completely impartial.

2. That holding any sort of bias is wrong.

3. That we need to be protected from incidents of bias.

Have the universities attempted to prove any of these ideas or is questioning prohibited?

These are their tenants rather than their conclusions.

And arguing against the tenants of a belief system is likely fruitless.

Belief systems have tenets. Apartments have tenants.

Why is this belief system enshrined in universities? Doesn't this belief system itself constitute a form of bias?

Ah, the age old question: Is "intolerance of intolerance" moral?

I'm not sure the answer.

I am sure that it's a lot easier to be tolerant of "good-thinking people, than bad-thinking people. Surely everyone can agree on that :)

PC Principal is real?!

That's why South Park works. It one great big reductio ad absurdum. Their whole formula is to detect a social trend and then amplify it into absurdity.

It's telling that they are having a hard time staying out in front these days.

This is the sort of idiocy that promotes the rise of demagogues like Trump.

I find demagogues like Trump (and his fans) love to blame people who possess sincerity and empathy for their own idiotic demagoguery.

Attempts to blame "the left" on Trump are absurd. Republicans have been courting the racist vote for decades, it was only a matter of time before those elements took over the party.

What does "courting the racist vote" mean? Because the most racist people I've ever met were always on the left. They do it in an underhanded way, as in assuming certain people based on color are unable to do things on their own and must be helped, resulting in dependence and the destruction of families. The left also will be racist towards other groups and denigrate them even when its their own color. Makes absolutely no sense.

The party of self-determination, republicans, individual voters have always been about working hard, individualism, keep what you earn, support your own family and don't kill your babies. Who founded planned parenthood, what motives did they have on abortion and which party glorifies it? Which party wants it defunded because of abortion? Who is racist again?

The article, or what it's describing?

I think he meant description, I find the article to pretty accurately isolate the issues with this sort of mentality.

And we attack Trump instead of the idiocy…

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