“Here in (Ivory Tower)-land things become what they are called rather than being called what they are.” – From Aristophanes’ satire The Birds
Balladeer’s Blog has often covered the Faculty Lounge Fascists who pretend to be “educators” (LMFAO) at American colleges and universities. Those secular missionaries for the Democrats are either Left-Wing Archie Bunkers from the 1960s generation OR had the misfortune of being “educated” (LMFAO) by Left-Wing Archie Bunkers from the 1960s generation.
Call them what you will but they continue to stand athwart the maturation process crying “halt,” to twist a very old saying. Below is a link to an article by Teresa Mull who discusses the closing of young minds on American campuses.
My disgust with American Liberals and Conservatives is no secret by this point. Like so many of us I used to identify as a Liberal until they became as intolerant of free speech and opposing viewpoints as the worst Christian Conservatives had ever been. 
In the deluded minds of American Liberals they are taking on mobs of ignorant people who just don’t understand that not all Muslims use violence. Ironically, the only Muslims who benefit from this refusal to openly discuss Muslim fascism are the violent, reactionary types who perpetuate misogny, homophobia and all of Islam’s other examples of intolerance and savage superstition. (Killing people for drawing pictures? Really?) 
GUTLESS HYPOCRITE COMMENT: Dude, people shouldn’t be allowed to criticize Islam because you can’t, like, shout “fire” in a crowded theater. (This one will be accompanied by one of those looks that lets you know the gutless hypocrite who said this thinks it’s a Really Deep Thought instead of the easily dismissed excuse that it really is.)
Balladeer’s Blog presents another examination of an ancient Greek political satire. This comedy by Aristophanes was one that I was planning on covering very soon when I started posting my reviews of Attic Old Comedy years ago. For various reasons it kept falling by the wayside. 
More than 2,300 years before George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, Aristophanes was dealing with some of the same political themes. 
They became the Political Correctness Police and anyone who offended their 1960s attitudes had to be silenced because – as they knew so well from their own experience – when controversial ideas are given the room to breathe they can often thrive. The totalitarian asses of the 1960s can’t bear the fact that younger people might have opinions that offend THEM as much as their opinions offended their parents’ generation. 
Keep in mind Spinoza’s wonderful line “Every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.” That still rings true because no matter what the hypersensitive fools who want to censor the rest of us find offensive NONE of them has the right to try to extinguish one single product of the human mind. 
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