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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I would go into why microaggressions fall into many different categories, including race, and I could address how and why people trivialize and categorize these things (and purposefully lump them in to this general idea that PC is out of control) in order to dismiss them, but I'm tired of this topic.
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I kind of agree with Thurgreed on this one. I have seen far more racism, misogyny and anti-Semitism since Trump has brought them out of the woodwork (see Breitbart headline calling Bill Kristol a "Renegade Jew" for advocating a conservative 3rd party option). I know they were always there, but it is pretty darn hard to miss now.
As to Sebby's point, pandering to college students who need to color and pet kittens to get through finals seems more than a tad counter productive. And I think adults should be able to read and discuss literature without a trigger warning. I am a full advocate of free speech, which is becoming more and more scarce at campuses. It's the view common among millenials that they have the right to not be offended by anything that is worrisome to me, but that is quite apart from racism and sexism, no matter how they are expressed. As offensive as some speech is, or should be to any decent person, the antidote is more speech, not less.
I did vote in the R primary runoff today. In many respects this runoff determines the winner more than the general election, at least for statewide races. Even a dumbass R will win statewide races, as RT has said before (BTW, I voted against Ken Paxton in the primary and his runoff) and RR Commission is a fairly important office.
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