Independents, you can call in. You can get through if you want to make a comment via social media at http twitter. Com cspanwj. Atalways, you can email us journal cspan. Org. Recent Pew Research Center poll, 40 of millennials ok with limiting speech offensive to minorities. Here is the breakdown in this poll. Yes millennials are more likely government should be able to prevent people from saying these things total. 20 agree. Millennials, the 18 to 34yearolds, 40 agree it 50 disagree. Gen x, 27 agree. Boomers,1 to 69 it 51 to 69 years old. Agree with that statement, 23 of the time. Women, 33 of the time. Republicans, 18 . Democrats agree that government should be able to prevent people from saying these things that are offensive to minorities. Democrats agree 35 of the time. Independence, 27 of the time. This is a new hue Research Center poll. Here is gene robinsons column in the Washington Post. This was published on november 23. Republicans are the ones hiding behind Political Correctness. The republican president ial candidates on the far right echo chamber have made clinical correct for facts and opinions they dont want to hear. Donald trumps claim that when the World Trade Center towers collapsed on 9 11, i watched in jersey city, new jersey, where thousands of people were cheering. Thousands of people were cheering. The post fact checked her columnist found no facts. He was given for pinocchios. Was abcs George Stepanov pressed the gop front runner to explain himself, noting that police say it did not happen, trump has resorted to what has become a familiar dodge. Know it may not be politically correct to talk about it, but there were people cheering. Also more fond of the political correct allegations. Is the theme of his campaign. It is unclear about whether he knows what Political Correctness is. Gene robinson goes on to write that it is not just the gop candidates who have the antiPolitical Correctness bug. Many conservative commentators have been quick to condemn the politically correct Princeton University students who demand the school remove symbols honoring Woodrow Wilson, a onetime princeton president because of his racism. These critics ignore the historical fact that wilson was racist, not just by todays standards but by those of his time. He wrote that asking americans work and ignorant and inferior race. He lavishly praised the ku klux klan and pined for the confederacy. As president , he ordered that integrated federal government workplaces be segregated. In delhi cp founder w b the boys wrote of one black curtain one black clerk who had a cage built around them to separate him. Robinson writes it is truthful. That was in the Washington Post this week. Krzysztof writing in the New York Times. He is a columnist, a self identified liberal. Mizzou, gail and free speech. We have seen wesley and students cut funding for the Student Newspaper after it ran an oped criticizing the black lives matter movement. At mount holyokes, students production of the vagina monologues because they felt it excluded transgender women. Christine lagarde at smith. But also initivity tolerance and it is disproportionately an instinct on the left. I am a prochoice liberal who has been invited to affect evangelical christian universities. Catholic universities where i have praised condoms and birth control. I am sure it has comforted many students on these conservative campuses. In the same spirit, liberal universities should seek out prolife, social conservatives to speak. More broadly academia especially the social sciences undermines itself by a tilt to the left. We should cherish all types of diversity including the presence of conservatives who infuriate us liberals. Education is about stretching muscles and that is painful in the gym and the lecture hall. Amongme frustrations minority students boiled over after administrators seemed insufficiently concerned about offensive costumes for halloween. Videos showed a furious student shouting down one administrator. She screamed it is not about creating an intellectual spin. That is a little bit from the krzysztofs column on this topic. We want to hear from you. Weve got three hours on the washington journal. We are going to have this discussion. Here are the numbers on your screen. Lyrical correctness, free speech and tolerance. That is our topic. Well, book tv was in miami last weekend for the miami book fair. While there, we spoke with peggy noonan who brought up the Political Correctness issue. That gets me back to the First Amendment of preoccupation. My dislike for an air of Political Correctness that is made everybody so nervous about how they might say the wrong thing. Most people are not running around as linguist and norm chomsky. Most people are just doing their best to express their thoughts. Sometimes they will do it awkwardly or in elegantly. Or even in a way that hurt somebodys desk person body else. We have to allows we have to allow each other that room. The Political Correctness movement that we see that has been propping up for 25 years and has become more radical is not helping us understand each other better. It isnt helping us resolve our conflict. It is only making us more inhibited and therefore more resentful. On our Facebook Page, tara posts the only one of these three is freedom of speech. Lyrical correctness is bs and ruining this country. No one is tolerant of anything, especially different opinions. Randy says Political Correctness and free speech cannot coexist. Eric says Political Correctness equals treating others with respect. You can have free speech but if you cant treat others with respect, your words are meaningless. Sarah is calling in. Sarah, go ahead. You . Host how pretty good. Er i have laryngitis. I have to say i watched mr. Trumps comments. Sick. K it is i dont necessarily say anything about Political Correctness. There is supposed to be humanity that we have. It seems to be leading us. Leaving us. Me that he is ok, stupid to attack somebody. His article said nothing about muslims. It just said people celebrate. Somebody running for actually that would control the world with his attitude, to me, is disgusting. Host that is sarah in mount vernon, new york. Donald trump was in the news again this week for supposedly mocking a reporter. You got to see this guy. I dont know what i said. I dont remember. I dont remember. Maybe thats what i said. This was 14 years ago. They did not do every checkin. Host that reported he is talking about works at the New York Times. He has a chronic condition that impairs movement of his arms. The spokesman said they find it outrageous that trump would ridicule the mans appearance. Back to our Facebook Page. Kurt says when you complain about medical correctness, what you mean is that you dont support free speech or tolerance for liberal ideas. That is why you only hear conservatives say i am not politically correct. Call christmas, christmas. Called islamic terrorism, islamic terrorism. Shut down the borders. One more comment. Matt says within free speech, the line is drawn the legal limit. You do not shot you do not shout fire in a crowded room. Anything other than that is fair game. Jim is a republican in north dakota. A conversation on Political Correctness, spree free speech. Caller happy in business peoples day. Happy Indigenous Peoples day. Are you there . Host we are all listening. Go ahead and talk into that telephone. Caller a couple of weeks ago i googled cspan washington journal dollars on race relations. On their that are supposed to be these examples of white racism. And some but he said the nword to steve. If you listen to that on the youtube, you find out it is a black guy pretending to be a republican unit you were talking about the shooting of this kit in chicago. It was nothing but black callers whitee of them said people were genetically evil. I but that was pretty hilarious. It depends on what hate is. Isches that asked despot pilate asked jesus what is truth. I often say what i call diversity, wherever there is increased diversity, there is loss of freedom. Yet to have more state controls to keep up with all of the different groups from offending each other here it diversity is not synonymous with liberty. Diversity destroys trust and liberty. The more diverse we get, the more we become a police state. France is a great example. We are talking about france. France is only 7 muslim. That is the highest percent of any european country. Their freedom of speech. They have closed their borders. They have 20,000 troops in the streets. I asked the people, how is diversity benefited france . How has it benefited any country . It hasnt. Host jim on the republican line. This is d in portland, oregon. Caller thank you. I had a totally different direction for my comment. After listening to the last commentor, if you want to know what racism is, listen to this man. Listen to this logic. Listen and you will hear the environment that he was brought up in. We are already dealing with racism in this country. Scaleon a much broader than anybody really wants to acknowledge. I do. I acknowledge that racism is the most basic problem that america has. Until it deals with its racism, it will never be right. What i am thinking back to my original point. When you look at the children at those colleges and universities that are being called niggers and all kind of dehumanizing terms. These were the terms that made certain people able to enslave them. To enslave people who did not look like they do. They pass this on to their children. It is not that a child is responsible for what an adult does. When one comes up in a certain environment, one becomes a product of that environment. We have to understand and admit that and try to deal with that. Until we do, we are not going to make any progress. Those children have every right to be respected and as dignified human beings with the same Human Potential as anyone else. Shouldone to say they have to tolerate being dehumanized is an academic setting, they have a problem. Thank you. Host that was d in portland. July, wrote in the new yorker about this issue. This is where the argument about the freedom of speech become most tone deaf. The freedom to offend the powerful is not equivalent to the freedom to bully the relatively disempowered. The enlightenment principle that undergirds free speech also prescribes that the natural limits of one liberty light at the precise point at which it begins to impose upon the liberty of another. During the debates of the 1964 civil rights act, mr. Cobb writes senator J Lister Hill of alabama stood up and declared his opposition to the bill by arguing that the protection of black rights would infringe upon the rights of whites. Logic of a career negrophobe. Some level of hills logic animates the current political climate. Judy is in anchorage. Independent. Actually i amr a republican. , i did not say i was an independent. My question is this. Wonder if you might ask them how is this affected either the number of applicants at these you at these prestigious universities like yale. Is he going to affect the donations that they get from their alumni . Think i would be concerned about my children are grown, but i really believe in diversity of thought. That if youme cannot tolerate ideas that are different from your own, and you begin to define as intolerant anybody who disagrees with you, that we are in a lot of trouble. Whyakes you understand there are people wandering around saying hey did you read the First Amendment. We have a constitution. Sometimes it is uncomfortable for People Living under the constitution. Host did you have one more thought . Caller that was it. Host daniel is from sherman, texas. Caller good morning. Host we are all listening. Please go ahead. I will be 65 and a month. Having grown up in the south in texas with a father who was literally a product of the depression. He was a professional person. A mother who grew up about 15 miles away in the south in texas who became a teacher and mother of four. It is difficult for me to lifetimed in my adult the freedoms that are so tantamount to what this country was founded on, how it was founded. Whether you are talking about jefferson, all the way through into the 20th century. Credulous and several of my Close Friends who are in the same age group, similar backgrounds, similar education levels. College graduates. Some multiple degrees. We laugh among ourselves but it is a sardonic laugh because Political Correctness to us means being able to have the worst ideas to have diverse ideas. Or ifr it is a professor it is a judy making the comments which i woulds strongly agree with nearly everything she said. Feel that we have lived too long and obviously that is not the case. We sometimes feel that living in with a tedf texas cruz with his Harvard Education is willing to stop government and the funding to satisfy his own personal agenda. The world is not diversity. Denialld is in complete of other peoples fairly intelligent thought processes and actions. This morning on the washington journal, we are devoting all three hours to the issues of Political Correctness, free speech and intolerance. Rick tweets and that bigots simply want license to disrespect and marginalize undervalued people youd people. They wish they would go away. Brad, from michigan. What are your thoughts . Caller if you go to youtube, Charlton Heston did a speech on resisting cultural change. It is very eloquent. It describes its spot on youd he basically describe Political Correctness as polite tolerance or polite tyranny. Right now, this country is living on the desk living under eral nazism or tear in his or tyranny. If he say the wrong thing, they can attack you and the government backs them up. I am old enough where i have seen the stuff come and go. As soon as the president is out of office, things are going to change because the pendulum swings back and forth. Everybody has had a stomach full of this Political Correctness garbage. He will leave the office and some intelligence will come back to this country. That is pretty much all i have to say. Host right before halloween, the New York Times had a frontpage article, halloween custom correctness on campus. Feel free to be you but not me. Kurt johnson writes that pocahontas, Caitlyn Jenner are no nose. If the wearer is japanese. Options, atable necklace once leave the path, crayola crowns. A couple of a cup of starbucks coffee. Or the protagonist of the where is waldo books. They are issuing recommendations for halloween custom was Halloween Costumes on campus fending off a hint of offense. Using the fairly new yardstick of Cultural Appropriation which means pretending for fun or profit to be a member of the ethnic or gender group to which you do not belong. They are sending a message that can be summed up in five words, it is dangerous to pretend. There is a great line, it is always best to stay away from it. Microbiology major and director of Diversity Efforts at the associated students of the university of washington. University emailed to all students this week a six minute video of what not to do for halloween. There has already been one major collision this week that fanned the flames on thursday. The university of louisville and kentucky apologized to latinos after its president james ramsey was photographed wearing stereotypical mexican attire at a halloween at a Costume Party for Staff Members on wednesday. He wore a some borough and friends to poncho and stood next to University Workers who wore dressed as who were dressed as members of a mariotti band with some barrows, barack is an fake mustaches. The term Cultural Appropriation which emerge from the academia that has been applied more broadly say, to refer to the Washington Redskins fans wearing feather headdresses or what people in cornrows has drawn ire from opponents of Political Correctness. But supporters say it catches a truth that the melding of cultures is often about which group has the power to take liquid fromles or another. The video issued by the university of washington shows students from various ethnic groups and of there is sexual orientations sing that almost any per trail of them can cause a wound. For example, justin in drag can hasgrate the struggle filled its Facebook Page of images of young people including white people in blackface and a man dressed as a our cultures the are not costumes. Michigan,versity of the dean has a webpage title Cultural Appropriation was the big deal. It urges students to ask themselves why they are wearing a particular costume and then to consider how accurate it is in depicting a culture or identity. Woody in poughkeepsie, new york, thanks for holding. You are on the washington journal. Our discussion today, little correctness, free speech. Caller good morning. How are you . I just want to get to the root word of medical correctness and politics. The word is polite. I t