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Not so long ago, one might have been able to count on the naturally oppositional reflexes of young adults as a counterbalance to this kind of crowdsourced social panic.
What’s worse, anyone who points out the nonsensical and performative aspects of these presidential letters will be gaslit for his troubles—this, in a supposed citadel of logic and learning.
In the case of the media, we’ve had a running social experiment underway since 2015 that helps us answer this question.
In 2019, Gilley found himself rebuffed by his own university when he proposed a course on “Conservative Political Thought.”
Two components make up an availability cascade: an informational cascade and a reputational cascade.
I regularly found myself on national TV and radio, opposing the idea that the state should act to stop teenagers accessing sexual material.
And it turns out that she was, because despite the best efforts of her critics, she hasn’t yet been truly cancelled.
Even though large tracts of our cultural landscape and many old and famous American institutions have fallen or may fall into the grip of this hostile ideology and all the odious apparatus of cancel culture rule, we shall not flag or fail.
The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.
Optimists, however, will prefer to focus on another takeaway from the study, which is that no significant statistical relationship could be found between Dark Triad traits and PCL (i.e. Political Correctness-Liberalism) attitudes.
Concerns about pornography expressed by Christian and other religious and social conservatives are no doubt sincere.
The Harper’s letter is a declaration intended to resist the poisonous atmosphere suffocating those who don’t enjoy our platforms and profiles.