swellafelon wrote:
It's a slippery slope.
If you accept the propriety of the government indoctrinating you with a PSA at a sporting event because you happen to agree with the government's position, you are opening up the door to other campaigns of government indoctrination, some of which you may NOT agree with.
Would you be so sanguine about it if the PSA was a piece of military propaganda intended to whip up hatred against some country we planned to invade?
The whole thing is Orwellian to me.
Plus, I happen to disagree with the campus rape culture meme. Reading some of the blogs by radical feminists on the subject was sickening.
Not to focus in on one comment to the point of missing your entire argument, but were you around from 2001 to 2006 or so? We DID have to sit through military propaganda pieces for countries we planned to invade. Except it was planted in every form of mainstream media, not just on a halftime PSA video at a college basketball game. You don't make much of differentiation between the scale or the venue.
Second, do you not at all recall
this story from early last year? Given the circumstances described in this story, isn't it not only conceivable, but somewhat likely that other similar attacks and abuse have occured without being reported?
I understand that you're concerned about political correctness and radical feminism running amok, the slippery slope, etc. I am also. Excesses in the rationality of minority victimhood arguments usually invalidate the efficacy of those arguments, and they pass over pretty quickly into the realm of ridicule. But in my experience, whenever people use the slippery slope argumentitive tactic they're usually advocating for a laissez faire status quo (to their personal benefit) and against assuming more responsibility to guard against a rare but devastating result. So we have school massacres about once a month, childhoood obesity, and corporations buying our elections to avoid that slippery slope. How about applying a little more of John Stuart Mill's utilitarianism to balance out your Immanuel Kant and Ayn Rand absolutes?