On being offended
13 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, liberalism, libertarianism Tags: political correctness
George Carlin – The Self Esteem Movement
12 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: political correctness, safe spaces
George Carlin – America’s Double Standards
11 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, economics of media and culture Tags: political correctness
The Trailer for Anti-Outrage Documentary Can We Take a Joke?
07 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism Tags: free speech, political correctness
Source: Check Out The Trailer for Anti-Outrage Documentary Can We Take a Joke? – Hit & Run : Reason.com
Politically Correct Halloween
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism Tags: crybaby left, free speech, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, political correctness, reactionary left, renegade Left, Twitter left
Dissenting opinion in the Fourth Circuit case on transgender students and restrooms
02 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, liberalism Tags: moral panic, political correctness, sex discrimination, social friction, transgender people
Until a few months ago, there is universal agreement particularly among women that men should not be allowed into female bathrooms and change rooms. There are relatively few transgender people according to New York at times estimates, and few had heard of them until recently to discriminate against them in long-standing bathroom arrangements.
This is not a case of sex discrimination. It is some people being rather unusual and not fitting into arrangements that suit everybody else. These arrangements regarding bathrooms, change rooms and privacy were crafted with absolutely no malice or hostility towards those who find them inconvenient such as transgender people. You just cannot please everybody.
There are certainly hostility and indeed violence against transgender people. That violence is by a minority full of hate looking for someone to hate on any criteria. There are some people are not nice and who take pleasure in being nasty and at times violent towards other people. That is separate from managing the long-standing human preference for bodily privacy.
Opposing discrimination is about telling people to stop being an arsehole. They have preferences about who they deal with that are appalling and mean. The segregation of bathrooms and changing rooms by sex is about a fundamental human desire for bodily privacy.
Sarah Haider: Islam and the Necessity of Liberal Critique (AHA Conference 2015)
17 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, liberalism Tags: Islam, political correctness
“Ain’t No Rest for the Triggered” – Social Justice: The Musical
13 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism Tags: crybaby left, political correctness, safe spaces
Micro-aggressions give way to micro-treasons
12 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: academic bias, microaggressions, political correctness
Freedom of speech: why we NEED academic freedom
07 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism Tags: political correctness
Maajid Nawaz on the Regressive Left
07 May 2016 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: Islam, political correctness
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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