I’ll respectfully disagree with Allan’s fear assertion:
And people wonder why intelligent discourse is at an all-time low. Fear. Fear of being labeled politically incorrect or a racist or a sexist or an ageist. Fear of not getting the proper nomenclature down or not using the right symbols, tropes, icons, memes or rubric.
Intelligent discourse is at an all time low because the internet and new media have given voice to a lot of uneducated/thoughtless people who think that their opinions are actually worth something (is that a sufficiently unPC way to phrase it).
Why would I want to argue about abortion with someone that doesn’t know what a blastocyte is? How do you argue evolution with someone that doesn’t know anything about genetics or radio-carbon dating?
