You're not even close. Public opinion doesn't control policy. Opinion follows party leadership, which controls policy, too.
In 'democracy', public opinion controls policy, journalists control opinion, colleges indoctrinate journos, speech codes control colleges.
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What influences party leadership then? They still depend on the propagandists -- journalists and academics -- to set the terms of debate.
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Indeed. And look at how the entire Center-Left establishment panicked when MSM lost its grip on propaganda in 2016.
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Official codes come from university bureaucrats, but the unofficial meaning, application, & enforcement of codes comes from SJW faculty.
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Well, federal govt spends $75 billion/year and states spend $72bn/year on higher ed, but point taken! http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2015/06/federal-and-state-funding-of-higher-education …
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So, just to be clear, the fight against speech codes is an actual political coup. Just a rather unfamiliar type of coup.
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Apologies -- I don't actually know what's referred to here by speech codes (and, by extension, the fight against them).
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Emotions.
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It's not a cliche. The global south have been using it, screaming it at us, for decades, and folk are only now hearing it in west.
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A deep question, and cleverer minds than mine are needed to answer it.
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