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Soph0571

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Sat May 12, 2018, 06:42 AM May 2018

Right-wing writers have found a staggering new argument to claim why they're oppressed

Despite the fact that Republican politicians are in charge of Congress and the White House while a conservative-leaning majority reigns in the Supreme Court, conservatives are nevertheless convinced that “the Left” is using political correctness to quash their ideas.

This pattern of thought is nowhere more evident than in the writings of National Review writer David French, who Friday published a story defending a recent article — written by the New York Times’ Bari Weiss — about the “Intellectual Dark Web.”

The web is a “network” of iconoclastic thinkers who include people like Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Ayan Hirsi Ali.

Despite these individuals’ relative success, the idea of the Intellectual Dark Web is that they are somehow kept down by oppressive political correctness and excluded from legacy media outlets. French argues, however, that “the path to prominence for many of these now-popular people has sometimes been painful.”


[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/right-wing-writers-found-staggering-new-argument-claim-theyre-oppressed/|

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Right-wing writers have found a staggering new argument to claim why they're oppressed (Original Post) Soph0571 May 2018 OP
Busted for thinking. no_hypocrisy May 2018 #1
Oh, what are the little snowflakes whinging about now? They are so smirkymonkey May 2018 #2
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