Salon Magazine: Aaron R. Hanlon: ‘They’re The Politically Correct: Ben Carson & Bill O’Reilly Are The Real Intolerant Speech Police’

Source:Salon Magazine- what Salon & Ben Carson have in common, is that they both love political correctness. Except when it comes from the other side.

“That leftist “social justice warriors” are suppressing speech that makes people “uncomfortable” is the dominant media narrative about free speech on college campuses. There are, of course, examples after examples of the opposite — people with actual administrative authority on campus (not student protesters) both upholding free speech in the face of left-leaning student demands for censorship, and denying free speech to left-leaning activists.

The myths persist not because they are true, but because they are pervasive and under-scrutinized.

It’s also classic conservative concern-trolling. The dominant narrative of students paradoxically coddled and terrified by leftist “SJWs” pretends to be about student wellbeing and protection of free speech, but was always fodder for partisan politics. For example, Fox News frets over the implications of a liberal professoriate because 96 percent of Cornell University faculty donations went to Democrats, but Bill O’Reilly has no plans to send Jesse Watters to the Chamber of Commerce to pose a series of inelegantly leading questions about whether their disproportionate donations to Republicans might be a source of indoctrination.”

From Salon Magazine

“Most of the Republican candidates would like to kill the Department of Education, but not Ben Carson. He has other plans for it. John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jayar Jackson, and Elliot Hill (The Lip TV), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“Ben Carson says he would not get rid of the Department of Education, a position contrary to several of his Republican White House primary rivals.

Instead, the retired neurosurgeon said the agency should be used to monitor America’s colleges and universities for “extreme political bias.”

“I actually have something I would use the Department of Education to do,” Carson said on Glenn Beck’s radio show on Wednesday…

“No, it would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists,” he responded.” 

Source:The Young Turks- representing the Far-Left spin on Ben Carson. Looks like Dr. Carson needs a nap. But I’m not a doctor.

From The Young Turks 

To point out about political correctness policies by Ben Carson, who apparently wants to ban language on campus that he sees as Un-American, just points out the fact that political correctness fascism, (and that’s exactly what it is) is bipartisan.

But no way does right-wing political correctness defend the Far-Left from trying to ban criticism of Muslims and Islam in general. It just makes the sophomoric argument: “That we might do it. But so do they. We might be bad, but they suck worse.” Not exactly a crowd pleaser and inspirational argument that brings people to your side.

At best you might get people to decide on choosing the lesser of two evils. The problem with that is that you’re still choosing evil. Just a lesser evil, but still evil:

“You want me to break your back, or do you want permanent brain damage?”

Okay, you don’t like that. How about a choice between going blind, or going death?

All, right fine. How about I break your arm, or your leg, but I won’t break both?”

Because those are the kinds of choices you have when picking between two evils. Fascism on the Right, or fascism on the Left. How about neither!

Political correctness fascism from either the Right or Left, still fascism. And try to say one is worst than the other, how about we not have that argument.

Instead of arguing who was a worst dictator, Joe Stalin, or Adolph Hitler, how about we have an argument about who is the better president, Harry Truman, or Ronald Reagan. And just because one side does it when it comes to political correctness, doesn’t excuse the other side when they do it. It just means that we had anti-free speech radicals on both sides. Who’ll fight like hell for their right to free speech. As they try to crush the other side’s rights.

“Dad, I cheated on that test, but so did five other students.” That wouldn’t impress my father and imagine most fathers and probably most mothers as well. All that does it show you that cheating was a problem on that test. And when you point out examples of political correctness on the other side, it just points out that political correctness is a bipartisan problem. But it doesn’t excuse either side.

Political correctness, is illiberal fascism, whether it comes from the Left or Right. Actually, all fascism is illiberal. (Meaning not liberal) Which is why this blog constantly points out the importance of free speech. And all believers of free speech Right and Left, should always fight against fascism. 

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