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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to one anonymous student, Landon is [b]oppressively liberal[/b]: [url]https://www.mcgop.com/a_conservative_at_woke_left_landon[/url].

What are experiences of people on these boards?[/quote]

This is an oxymoron [/quote]

Why?  This is the case in many liberal universities.  My DC who had stats strong enough to be considered for many ivies decided not to apply because he didn't want to be "politically correct" in everything he wrote, said.
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Can you give me an example of “political correctness” that is unacceptable to you? It’s been my experience that when people complain about “political correctness” it’s usually just about not wanting to extend someone respect or courtesy, even when you happily extend the same respect or courtesy to others.

Not being able to argue or protest against abortion is oppression. Your friends being turned off by you doing so is not oppression. Being asked to use specific pronouns is not oppression. Not being allowed to make a good faith argument that non-binary genders are a social construct is oppression. Your friends being turned off by you doing so is not oppression.

The op-ed OP linked only gives one example, which is a kid who left the water polo team rather than cover up his upper thigh MAGA tattoo. It’s an interesting question and I think I come down on the side of the kid, that he should have been allowed to play with his tattoo. But if you want me to believe that would be the “conservative” position if a Texas football player had a “trans rights” tattoo…

Certainly taking the tattoo story and wrapping it in a bunch of whining and hysterics, as this kid did, suggests he’s not interested in arguing about principles and values at all. He just wants to make memes for the MAGAverse. But that’s not a good way to make friends and influence people IRL. [/quote]

I think, based upon the quality of writing (ranting) in the article, that Landon's bigger problem is its writing curriculum, not wokeness.[/quote]

Interesting that someone discussing feeling that are not woke is a rant. That says it all doesn’t it?[/quote]

Conservative here. The article is objectively a mostly meritless rant. A focused discussion on the tattoo issue could have some merit. [/quote]

+1, I’m the liberal PP who said I would probably want the school to stay out of determining tattoo offensiveness. But I agree it’s a really interesting case and I would love to know the details and the various arguments. I’m a GDS alum, for the record. This op-ed would get a bad grade there because it’s poor rhetoric, not because it’s “wrong” on the tattoo issue. [/quote]

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