Spot on. This has been and continues to be terrifying to watch ... like watching the Khmer Rouge take root, or the Shining Path, or Nazi Germany. Our governments, our media, our universities are all behaving as if it is not just acceptable but admirable to cancel, harass, ostracize, silence, suppress, marginalize, and strip livelihoods from people for their immutable characteristics, failure to score enough recognized oppression points, and/or desire to exercise their rights to speak and think freely. Even physical attacks and intimidation are largely ignored, or even praised. I never expected to see such a wholescale, Orwellian degeneration of intellectual freedom in the U.S. in the 21st century.
Spot on. This has been and continues to be terrifying to watch ... like watching the Khmer Rouge take root, or the Shining Path, or Nazi Germany. Our governments, our media, our universities are all behaving as if it is not just acceptable but admirable to cancel, harass, ostracize, silence, suppress, marginalize, and strip livelihoods from people for their immutable characteristics, failure to score enough recognized oppression points, and/or desire to exercise their rights to speak and think freely. Even physical attacks and intimidation are largely ignored, or even praised. I never expected to see such a wholescale, Orwellian degeneration of intellectual freedom in the U.S. in the 21st century.