{"id":126179,"date":"2015-11-12T07:28:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126179"},"modified":"2015-11-12T07:28:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T13:28:05","slug":"can-we-start-taking-political-correctness-seriously-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126179","title":{"rendered":"Can We Start Taking Political Correctness Seriously Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/11\/can-we-take-political-correctness-seriously-now.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The student protest at the University of Missouri began as a response to a serious problem \u2014 outbursts of vile racism on campus \u2014 and quickly devolved into an expression of a renewed left-wing hostility to freedom of expression. At the protest on Missouri\u2019s campus yesterday, on a space that is expressly open to free expression, protesters barred journalists from covering the demonstrations. In one scene, protesters surrounded and harassed Tim Tai, a photographer with the student newspaper, chanting, \u201cHey, hey, ho, ho, journalists have got to go.\u201d The scene is captured on a video here, which rewards close watching until the end, where Melissa Click, a professor of mass media working with the protest movement, calls out, \u201cHelp me get this reporter out of here. I need some muscle over here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty bad when even <em>New York<\/em> magazine, bona fide Voice of the Crust, has a problem with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. The student protest at the University of Missouri began as a response to a serious problem \u2014 outbursts of vile racism on campus \u2014 and quickly devolved into an expression of a renewed left-wing hostility to freedom of expression. At the protest on Missouri\u2019s campus yesterday, on a space that is expressly open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126180,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126179\/revisions\/126180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}