Hat Tip: Instapundit
You know, the left wants to silence dissent. They use speech codes on college campuses and they accuse anyone who disagrees with them of racism, homophobia, hating women (misogyny), and now bullying. Yes, now having a politically incorrect opinion is now "bullying." As OpenMarkets.org reports:
A school superintendant has labeled a column in a school newspaper that criticized homosexuality as “bullying.” (The Shawano High School newspaper decided to run dueling student opinion pieces on whether same-sex couples should be able to adopt children; the student article that was labeled as “bullying” answered the question “no.” The school district also publicly apologized for the column, and said that it is “taking steps to prevent items of this nature from happening in the future.”)
Yes, mustn't make gays feel bad. Which probably means it's open season on white, heterosexual Christian males.
The definition of what constitutes bullying is so broad, that even criticizing the President (as I have been known to do) could be labeled "cyberbullying."
But schools and anti-bullying activists have adopted incredibly overbroad definitions of bullying. The anti-bullying website NoBully.com, and schools like Fox Hill and Alvarado Elementary, define even “eye rolling” and other expressions of displeasure or hostility as bullying, even though doing so raises First Amendment problems.
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Since “creating web sites” that “make fun of others” also is deemed “cyberbullying,” conservative websites that poke fun at the president are presumably guilty of cyberbullying under this strange definition. (Law professors such as UCLA’s Eugene Volokh have criticized bills by liberal lawmakers like Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) that would ban some criticism of politicians as cyberbullying.)
The left always wants to shut up those who don't agree with them. Labeling speech as "hate" or "bullying" is just another attempt to shut up the right. There are lots of people who think homosexuality is morally wrong (I'm not one of them). But expressing that opinion should be protected under the 1st Amendment, whether we agree or not. People call the Tea Party racist all the time yet somehow that's not bullying, I guess. Bullying is only to control the speech of those who disagree with liberals.
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