{"id":834,"date":"2016-06-27T08:59:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=834"},"modified":"2016-06-27T08:59:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:59:14","slug":"this-is-what-it-wouldve-been-like-if-our-founding-fathers-were-social-justice-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/06\/this-is-what-it-wouldve-been-like-if-our-founding-fathers-were-social-justice-snowflakes\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what it would’ve been like if our Founding Fathers were social justice snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe> \nHow would the Constitution read if it was written by men more mindful of microaggressions and safe spaces than individual liberty?<\/p>\nThankfully, we\u2019ll never have to know. But the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) imagined it that way in a new video animation featuring cartoon renderings of the Founding Fathers wrestling with writing a non-offensive version of the Amendments.<\/p>\nAs FIRE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/what-if-our-constitution-were-written-like-campus-speech-codes-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">notes<\/a>, college administrators write speech codes in order to prohibit speech deemed biased or disrespectful, including \u201cinappropriately directed laughter.\u201d Anyone wishing to engage in \u201cquestionable\u201d speech is directed to designated \u201cfree speech zones,\u201d as long as the content has been approved beforehand.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s also noted that the University of California System has deemed tropes such as \u201cAmerica is a melting pot\u201d or \u201cAmerica is the land of opportunity\u201d as microaggressions that shouldn\u2019t be used, lest it trigger an innocent bystander\u2019s feelings.<\/p>\nFIRE\u2019s video, \u201cWhat If Our Constitution Were Written Like Campus Speech Codes?,\u201d is explained below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>This video illustrates our Founding Fathers deciding what speech should and should not be allowed in America\u2014using the same logic administrators use when writing campus speech codes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAmerican universities are no longer marketplaces of ideas but designated \u201csafe spaces\u201d to protect from any thought contrary to progressive opinions. If an invited guest even leans a little to the right, they are disinvited. Most conservatives aren\u2019t even invited at all.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s hard to imagine an America founded on these principles. Unfortunately, it\u2019s the direction we\u2019re headed and we better do something about it now before we lose our liberty forever.<\/p>\nJoin the only movement that can stop government overreach. 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