Originally Posted by eja_ bottecchia

I agrre in part with what you wrote.

There are places, especially in academia, where people self-censor for fear of offending the PC crowd. When people are afraid to speak out for fear of offending the PC crowd and risk adverse consequences democracy loses and academia suffers.

The answer to speech we don’t like (or approve of) is not censorship (whether institutionalized or self-imposed). The answer is more speech. Let ideas live or die in the marketplace of free intellectual exchange. This is the opposite of what the PC crowd seeks to do. They seek to stifle all ideas and all debate that does not conform to their notions of right and wrong.

My parents brought me to the US, from our native Cuba, so I could live in a country where I am free to speak my mind without fear of oppressors.