WE wanted to share this ReasonTV video a while ago, but it seemed awfully dark to share just two days before Christmas; we set it aside. What's so interesting here is this European's concept that leftwing PC-ness and sustainability are actually "conservative" in the bad sense, that safe-space conformism is anti-progress and rigid, not liberal.
Symptoms of the conformism-cowardice culture have surfaced already just up the hill at WWU, the atmosphere where "To say something controversial is like punching someone in the face." (Goodbye free speech and free thought; how emotionally crippling.)
The YouTube description reads: "The real threat to free speech now is conformism and cowardice," says Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked and a columnist for Reason.com. The 41-year-old Londoner has similarly blunt and outspoken views about "left-wing environmentalism," which he calls "an apology for poverty" Give it a look if you can find a few minutes. This is very insightful.
Symptoms of the conformism-cowardice culture have surfaced already just up the hill at WWU, the atmosphere where "To say something controversial is like punching someone in the face." (Goodbye free speech and free thought; how emotionally crippling.)
The YouTube description reads: "The real threat to free speech now is conformism and cowardice," says Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked and a columnist for Reason.com. The 41-year-old Londoner has similarly blunt and outspoken views about "left-wing environmentalism," which he calls "an apology for poverty" Give it a look if you can find a few minutes. This is very insightful.
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