If it was up to the devotees of political correctness, we should never utter certain words or phrases. Why? Because according to postmodern philosophy words are as powerful as fists and guns; they are tools of pain and oppression. Let’s leave aside for a moment the issue of whether words are really weapons. Let’s also
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Does hate speech only emanate from the right? That is the conclusion one could reasonably reach from one University of North Carolina professor’s course. Via Campus Reform: The University of North Carolina offers a communications course about the dangers of hate speech, which the course’s professor openly blames on the political right. The class, titled
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A teenage African girl clutched an infant boy to her chest as the shocking words spilled from her mouth. “Sometimes when I’m alone with my baby, I think about killing him,” the teen told the Washington Post earlier this year. “He reminds me of the man who raped me.” The Post’s story is chilling and
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A year ago, Minnesota’s Prior Lake High School made waves when it announced it would not participate in the National School Lunch Program during the 2015-2016 school year. At that time, the Star Tribune reported the school district’s reasoning as follows: “Prior Lake High School is just the third Minnesota school to withdraw from the
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Religious believers sometimes say that atheism is a “faith,” and in that sense a religion. That’s debatable because they’re using the word ‘faith’ ambiguously, and trading on that ambiguity. But according to NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, there is a scientific sense in which a relatively new, secular “religion” of “social justice” is entrenching itself
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The question must at least be pondered, even by Americans. Last year, a Catholic bishop in Hungary, László Kiss-Rigó, publicly contradicted Pope Francis on the question what to do about the huge number of Muslims pouring into Europe to escape wars in their own countries. The Pope called them “refugees” who should be welcomed and
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