Ready for the Apocalypse? (U.S. Political Megathread)

This has been criticized and protested since it started happening, what, 20 years ago? People were complaining about hyper-PC culture then too. Before that they were insisting that colleges divest from South Africa. Is not the history of our country discovering the perceived moral failings of those before us and trying to correct them?

If you watch the Daily Show from 10 years ago, it is rife with gay jokes that would be completely unacceptable now (and largely just not that funny). The culture has shifted. There have always been stories of things going way too far and there is more media now to magnify the best and the worst of them.

It's so easy for white guys to pretend to understand what's it's like to live in fear of the police every day.

I think John's point is we, as a society, have become much more intolerant of views we disagree with

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.

We've always been intolerant of other views, it's nothing new.

So, you're a white dude I'm guessing?

So the pablum spewed by Rush and Fox News really isn't that different from what we heard in the past???

Speaking of smug condescension...


This place has got it in spades.

Gary wrote:
Fixed that spelling for you

“It’s time to begin a new phase to intensify and broaden our efforts, to smash the would-be caliphate and deny ISIS control of territory in Iraq and Syria,” Clinton said. “That starts with a more effective coalition air campaign, with more allied planes, more strikes and a broader target set.”
She said that air campaign was “necessary but not sufficient.” To be successful, she added, “airstrikes will have to be combined with ground forces actually taking back more territory from ISIS.” But she said she opposes another deployment of American troops in combat in the Middle East. “That is just not the smart move to make here,” she said. “Local people and nations have to secure their own communities. We can help them and we should, but we cannot substitute for them.”
She called for deploying a special operations force that Obama has authorized and said she is “prepared to deploy more as more Syrians get into the fight.”

Clinton also challenged Turkey to step up and become full partners in combating ISIL. “This is their fight, and they need to act like it,” she said. “So far, however, Turkey has been more focused on the Kurds than on countering ISIS.”
And she specified how she would run a no-fly zone in Syria, saying it would be “principally over northern Syria close to the border, cutting off the supply lines, trying to provide some safe refuges for refugees ... creating a safe space away from the barrel bombs. I would certainly expect to work with the Russians to be able to do that.

“This is a time for American leadership. No other country can rally the world to defeat ISIS. Only the United States can mobilize common action on a global scale,” she said. “The entire world must be part of this fight, but we must lead it.”

“Let’s be clear, though: Islam itself is not our adversary,” she said. “Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. The obsession in some quarters with a ‘clash of civilizations’ or repeating the specific words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ is not just a distraction, it gives these criminals, these murderers, more standing than they deserve and it actually plays into their hands by alienating partners we need by our side.”