Press Coverage: Social Justice Warrior Zeitgeist

[Aneris]

There is a Zeitgeist of no-platform, censorship, trigger warnings, social media shame campaigns that is not actually directed at targets that credibly hold dubious racist, sexist et cetera views, but at liberals and potential allies. Please share articles in the media that reflect or are about (meta) this situation. A lazy copy and paste would work, but preferably, post outlet, date and link.

PLEASE ADD ARTICLES.

Code: Select all

Template:
[b]OUTLET[/b] // YYYY Month DD
[url=LINK.com]HEADLINE[/url]

[Aneris]

The Guardian // 2015 Feb 15
We cannot allow censorship and silencing of individuals
Universities have a particular responsibility to resist this kind of bullying

New Republic // 2015 Feb 19
The Rise of Feelings Journalism

The Spectator // 2015 Feb 19
Identity politics has created an army of vicious, narcissistic cowards

Washington Post // 2015 Feb 20
Feminist writers are so besieged by online abuse that some have begun to retire

Washington Post // 2015 Feb 20
The progressive ideas behind the lack of free speech on campus

[Aneris]

Laury Penny Blog // Laury Penny // 2014 Sep 08
WHY WE’RE WINNING: SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS AND THE NEW CULTURE WAR

Boston Globe // Steven Pinker // 2015 Jan 27
Why free speech is fundamental

Huffington Post UK // 2015 Feb 02
Feminist Comedian Kate Smurthwaite Forced To Cancel Uni Show - Because Student Feminists Didn't Like Her Feminism

Reason // 2015 Feb 09
Flawed Narratives, Perfect Victims, and the Columbia Rape Allegations

[Aneris]

New Republic // 2015 Feb 16
Why Women's Colleges Still Matter in the Age of Trans Activism
(h/t Skepticke)

[Jan Steen]

Not press articles, but excellent diagnoses of the SJW malady.

Will Shetterly's blog
Social Justice Warriors: Do Not Engage
Also check out his book How to Make a Social Justice Warrior, available for free here.

Slate Star Codex // 2014 Jul 07
Social Justice And Words, Words, Words

[Malky]

Post by Jerry Coyne on "safe places" at Universities in the USA.

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.co ... ide-again/

[Aneris]

Gameinformer/ Blog // 2015 Feb 23
Saint Sarkeesian and The Root of All Evil
(h/t JackSkeptic)

[Skep tickle]

Trading the Megaphone for the Gavel in Title IX Enforcement: Backing off the hype in Title IX enforcement
by Janet Harley, Harvard Law Review Forum, 2015 Feb 18

The Social Justice Warrior Racist Reading Challenge, A Fisking
by Larry Correia, Monster Hunter Nation (his blog), 2015 Feb 23

How can we fight online shaming campaigns?
by Scott Aaronson, Shtetl-Optimized (his blog), 2015 Feb 25

[Skep tickle]

All right, this time I will try to use the format Aneris suggested...requested...imposed... ;)

@adrianchm's blog at medium.com // 2015 Feb 27
Top Ten Critiques of Feminist Frequency

h/t guest in the endless thread here

[Skep tickle]

The Chronicle of Higher Education // 2015 Feb 27
Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe

h/t Garlix in the undead thread

[Old_ones]

[youtube]8jEHPH30NVc[/youtube]

LOL.

[Old_ones]

Sorry about that, the wrong window was open.

[Aneris]

New York Times // Judith Shulevitz // 2015 March 21
In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas

[Skep tickle]

Breitbart // 2015 March 27
#TeamHarpy: Another Ugly Story of ‘Progressive’ Vigilantism

[Aneris]

Some more, via Facebooks "related" (just skimmed so far)

The Federalist // 2015 March 24
‘Microaggressions’ And ‘Trigger Warnings,’ Meet Real Trauma

National Post (Canada) // Rex Murphy // 2015 March 27
The modern university risks becoming a cocoon of self-indulgence and anti-intellectualism

The Globe and Mail // Meghan Murphy (Feminist Currency) // 2015 March 28
There’s nothing ‘safe’ about silencing dissent

[Aneris]

A bit older...

The Daily Caller // 2014 Dec 12
Your Rape: Is It Clickbait? Does It Pop?

[Skep tickle]

Nick Cohen: Writing From London (blog) // 2015 March 28 (updated 2015 May 12)
The PC revolution devours its own

[Skep tickle]

New Republic // 2015 May 14
Life Is "Triggering." The Best Literature Should Be, Too.

[Skep tickle]

The American Reader // 2015 March 10*
#JeNeSuisPasLiberal: Entering the Quagmire of Online Leftism

(*Date based on author's twitter feed)

h/t Shatterface

[Matt Cavanaugh]

I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me
by Edward Schlosser
Vox, June 3, 2015

[Matt Cavanaugh]

A good exposition on the Schlosser article by another college professor fed up with PC tyranny in the classroom:

Emotional rescue

Money quote:

We are weakened around us by theory-obsessed pedagogues who replace book-learning and critical thinking from close readings and informed discussions with cant and slant. We are faced by those enrolling with us who often have trouble decrypting the clouded messages of what canonical as well as radical texts and sources convey from thousands of years of human thought. Against this, and growing semi-literacy when it comes to print and visual media, we strive to focus on big questions and tough issues, evading easy solutions or prescribed "PC-correct" content.

[Skep tickle]

Chortle / 2015 June 27
Victimhood damages society... and comedy

h/t @clarlemon

[Skep tickle]

THE FEDERALIST // 2015 July 6
The New Totalitarians Are Here

Authoritarians merely want obedience, while totalitarians, whose rule is rooted in an ideology, want obedience and conversion.

Even after losing, you will be forced to admit the error of your ways.

[Skep tickle]

The New York Observer // 2015 June 11
The Pecking Disorder: Social Justice Warriors Gone Wild

Author: Cathy Young

[Aneris]

Lazy Basterds. Here's some catching up. I know I missed some good pieces, please check your stash and add to the collection (only from news sites, including their blog op-eds, but no ordinary blogs).

New York Post // Oct 26, 2015
There’s a feminist civil war brewing over Caitlyn Jenner

New York Times // Oct 30, 2015
Academia’s Rejection of Diversity

Reason.com // Nov 3, 2015
Pro-Gay Film Screening Cancelled Because It's Too Offensive

New York Times // Nov 9, 2015
‘I Need Some Muscle’: Missouri Activists Block Journalists

Reason.com // Nov 9, 2015
Students at Yale, Missouri Beg College Administrators to Play Mommy and Daddy

The Atlantic // Nov 9, 2015 // Connor Friedersdorf
The New Intolerance of Student Activism

The Atlantic // Nov 10, 2015 // Connor Friedersdorf
Campus Activists Weaponize ‘Safe Space’

Daily Intelligencer // Nov 10, 2015
Can We Start Taking Political Correctness Seriously Now?

Harvard Law Record // Nov 10, 2015
Fascism at Yale

National Review // Nov 11, 2015
Campus Commotions Show We’re Raising Fragile Kids

The Economist // Nov 14 2015
Student protests: The right to fright

[Skep tickle]

Tomowolade's personal blog // 2015 Dec 5
The student left’s broken moral compass

From near the end:

Ideas and beliefs should not be beyond scrutiny in any society that regards itself as free – especially if those ideas are used to oppress. Universities should not be considered safe spaces for any young person cognisant of the fact that open societies necessitates you tolerate speech that you dislike. Instead, what we have here is a culture of progressives, disaffected by liberal principles, pointedly incurious or delusional about the people they’re defending, marginalising the voice of someone who speaks up for vulnerable people. For people who don’t have the benefit of languidly complaining about safe spaces; for people who don’t have the benefit of coming out as gay to their parents or telling them they’re atheist or having a boyfriend; people who dare to behave in a way that doesn’t suit the stereotype of brown people, and instead think for themselves. People who don’t cry or wallow in shallow victimhood because they’re offended by the misuse of a pronoun or the wearing of problematic clothes. These people are alone because the student left has abandoned them in pursuit of the solipsistic politics of grievance.

Let’s recap: A feminist society and a LGBTQ society are supporting the marginalisation of a feminist and pro-gay rights ex-Muslim by a group that promotes homophobes and misogynists. End of analysis.

[cnut the great]

The Independent // Dec 4, 2015
Muslim students from Goldsmiths University's Islamic Society 'heckle and aggressively interrupt' Maryam Namazie talk

[Skep tickle]

Newsday // 2016 January 11
Sexual assaults in Germany highlight the need of immigrants to assimilate

(by Cathy Young)

[JackSkeptic]

31/01/2016

News report on the Melbourne Pride March being disrupted by SJW anti-march protesters.

http://www.samesame.com.au/news/13238/P ... ride-March

InternetAristocrat's guide to SJW's (Social Justice Warriors)



Credit Adam Orban

[JackSkeptic]

Above date was UK format, day and month reversed to US.

02/02/2016

Gad Saad

'How Political Correctness Limits the Free Exchange of Ideas on Campus'

[MarcusAu]

Dave Rubin has several interviews up on his YouTube channel 'The Rubin Report'

Nick Cohen (Author of 'What's Left)


Also you can check for interviews with Michael Shermer, Christina Hoff Sommers, Sarah Hader, Faisel Saeed Al Mutar, Ayaan Hirsi Ali... and the list goes on.

[MarcusAu]

From a more right wing perspective - here is Bill Whittle of P J Media (they have their own YouTube channel) - talking about the origins of Political Correctness and Cultural Marxism:

[Aneris]

Spiked Online // Wendy Kaminer // 2016 Jan
Fear, loathing and victimhood

Observer // Cathy Young // 2016 Feb 02
The Totalitarian Doctrine of ‘Social Justice Warriors’

[Skep tickle]

Popehat // Ken White // 2016 Jan qq
Lawyering Is About Service, Not Self-Actualization

[Aneris]

Minding The Campus //2016 Feb 03
A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt