sapphi_snake said:
The site actualyl had a small number of cases, considerign the size of the US, and the large number of schools (which is a good thing honestly). Realistically, political correctness is quite a good strategy if you want to make sure you get along fine with everyone. The problem with anti-PC people is that they don't want to accept any consequences for their actions. And I'm not talking about legal consequences (which should only exist in certain situations, and the motivation for such consequences should not be that the message is "offensive"), but the fact that private individuals who are offended by such language choose not to associate with them. Not to mention that they're hypocritical (upset if their views are insulted, but have no problem insulting others, and often present such insults as "religious expression"). |
It's not really such a small number of cases given that FIRE is only about a decade old and isn't nearly as large or well established as the ACLU, which handles exponentially more such cases. But FIRE is an easy place to look for this kind of stuff because unlike other free speech organizations, they deal exclusively with academia.
You seem to have a very narrow and glorified view of how political correctness works, I think. We are not talking about the choice of private individuals refusing to associate with people who offend them, which I don't think anyone in the world could disagree with. We're talking about institutions of learning which receive taxpayer dollars telling people they can't say or do offensive things while permitting other people to say and do offensive things, simply because they happen to agree with those particular offensive things. I mean, I get that your view of this issue is strongly colored by where you live, and probably if I lived in an intolerant backwater, I'd feel the same way as you, but I don't, so I don't.
