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8487 says...

The whole left/right brain thing is nonsense. There is such a thing as hemispheric dominance, but it doesn't have any bearing on your personality. And this animation isn't even a test for it. I wish people would leave this silly little myth behind, it's so brainless for people to keep spouting "oh yes, I'm a left-brain person" as if it means they're all artistic and woo. It's embarrassing.

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8487 says...

Speech codes present a problem because they don't just restrict people's public speech, but the speech they use in their own groups. If I call my best female friend "petal" or "sugar" or "treacle", which I often do, somebody else might overhear and report me for violating the sexual harrassment speech code becuase they found it offensive, even if I wasn't talking to them. And what about performing a play with offensive language or controversial content? Good luck.

Seems to me that the colleges are simply trying to avoid controversy and bad press. By policing the vocabulary of their students they are creating a kind of Newspeak, where some ideas will eventually be unable to be discussed because the words will not exist any more.



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