>>12393150Yes, this is definitely a good point.
And I was kind of expressing a conservative opinion, but even I have to admit that until the end of the 20th century, I think society was often biased towards conservative values. I certainly don't want to see conservative bias, but I think the pendulum has swung too far, and now we are seeing a lot of liberal bias within our institutions and upper classes.
I don't understand why social institutions, whether you are talking the government, the media, pop culture, etc. always have to take the most rigid, dogmatic, extreme approach to whatever ideology is popular at the time.
I think shit would be much better if we could just discuss things publicly without censoring or harassing people, especially when it comes to professors and journalists. I was actually just reading this story about this professor who was fired in 2003 for criticizing the Iraq war. Interestingly, a professor at my university resigned several years ago after controversy erupted surrounding their criticism of diversity measures at my school, and there are obviously a number of similar incident in the last few years. It's really unfortunate, because the field of scholarship is the one area where free speech is the most important, and where the concept of taboo topics is the most harmful.
