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| 66% of Americans now fear speaking their minds in a politically correct nation |
| 2017-08-28 |
| h/t Instapundit Is the nation switching from the land of the free and the home of the brave -- to the land of the silent, and the home of the reluctant? Citizens are wary of speaking their minds, a new poll suggests. Many Americans are opting to stay quiet in an intensified culture of political correctness fostered by activism and often biased media coverage. "Few Americans think they have true freedom of speech today and think the country is too politically correct," reports a new Rasmussen Reports survey. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 So who are the REAL fascists? |
| Posted by: newc 2017-08-28 22:30 |
| #8 The problem is cars get keyed, tires get flattened, and it comes from one side of the political spectrum. California Conservatives learned these lessons about the tolerant left decades ago. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-08-28 18:18 |
| #7 Similar verbiage, however, has been. And is. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-28 16:02 |
| #6 "I'll fucking kill you!" has never been PC parlance. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-08-28 15:23 |
| #5 Mr. Wife is a Never Trumper, and believes pot should be legalized, so we both tread carefully. Among his colleagues, and in my own activities where I know most of the participants think differently than I, I talk about things other than politics, or listen politely, asking the occasional question. It's been so at least since George W. Bush was elected -- we voted for opposing sides as usual (Mr. Wife was the one who chose Mr. Bush the first time, though he loathes the man; he voted for him, or against the other guy, the second time, too, despite loathing him more than before). But Mr. Wife's parents have disagreed about key matters of faith since he was a child -- his mother became Evangelical, while his father remained a desultory Catholic. They respect one another enough to agree to disagree, she quietly prays for him as she prays for all of us, and they celebrated their silver anniversary a few years ago. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-28 14:31 |
| #4 The fatal flaw in polling is those of us who are uninterested in being participants or profiled in some unknown database. We vote, we buy things and we support ideas/institutions privately. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2017-08-28 12:34 |
| #3 66% who actually responded. Sort of like all your other polls. And you wonder why polling sucked last year. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-08-28 08:02 |
| #2 I know! Lets ask that guy who got 'googled' (1). (1) Googled - fired for speaking one's mind in a reasonable fashion in a company who claims to be 'diverse and encourages speaking one's mind' - as long as it follows the established groupthink. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-08-28 08:01 |
| #1 Quit being bitches and not worry about the bullies. What they gonna do? Sue? I |
| Posted by: chris 2017-08-28 07:12 |