<p>I have been an avid poster on here for a good while although I took a break and didn't post during my first semester at college but I'm back and it seems like the same things are happening. Political Correctness has taken over the cafe. No longer can you say anything with a conservative leaning without getting personally bashed and called a racist or an idiot. Since when do we not have the right to question those people whom we were taught were infallible heroes such as MLK, Lincoln, Kennedy, FDR, etc... by presenting facts that shed light on their real personalities. It seems very disturbing to me that there can not be civilized yet controversial topics discussed on here without people being banned. Whenever topics like these are brought up it seems like threads disappear as quickly as a capitalist dissident during the reign of the Soviet Union. Can anyone shed some light on this?</p>
<p>the people who run this place are obviously left leaning commies.</p>
<p>Political correctness has pervaded much of the world, unfortunately. </p>
<p>I saw how you were called a racist and an idiot and that is just so unnecessary and counterproductive. It is truly sad that we can't have debates without resorting to childish name callling and personal attacks. There are some things in most cultures that are just seem to be infallible truths, and those perhaps are the American ones. Some people just get very sensitive about certain issues. They don't want to think for a minute that maybe what they heard in school isn't the real truth, or that people we thought were nice great guys really weren't.</p>
<p>Thats exactly right. There are things about people that we don't learn about in school that can completely change your perspective on someone that you may have once revered, but if you try to have a discussion about this you are labeled sexist, racist, an idiot or who knows what else.</p>
<p>I know. It's almost surprising how much people get offended if you question the character or nature of men who have been long dead. It's almost as if you insulted their mother or something. </p>
<p>I think it's important to question what we are taught. It's pointless and meaningless if we just take everything we are told in school to be fact- that's not knowledge just force-fed information. </p>
<p>I've been lucky that my school encourages questioning the historical accuracy of portraits of such "heros". We've always been assigned to look at the negative aspects of famous leaders in history, and then also to the positive ones of leaders who are "bad". It leads to a very interesting perspective.</p>