Why is the political left now censorious and authoritarian??

Nah. Yawn. Can't be bothered with the supercilious, sanctimonious and entitled.

Are you going to give examples or do you just want to moan and complain?

Nah it's tedious. I'm going to run away. Btw, it's not a fight it's an argument with some extremely uppity and overly cocksure students.

Sure the topic came to mind because someone was censorious, so what? If it isn't generally true that society has massively changed in this regard you must be very young or living under a rock. Of course it's a general argument. And like I say, tone down the supercilious entitlement please, just proving my point.

So you got moderated on a website after you violated the terms of service you previously agreed to and used that to conclude the left are authoritarian?
This is a bad argument. You were challenged on that and rather than offer a counter position, you got all huffy. How have you got to such a level of maturity that you call others very young yet you don’t seem to understand how a debate works in the adult world?

So you got moderated on a website after you violated the terms of service you previously agreed to and used that to conclude the left are authoritarian?
This is a bad argument. You were challenged on that and rather than offer a counter position, you got all huffy. How have you got to such a level of maturity that you call others very young yet you don’t seem to understand how a debate works in the adult world?

In the new adult world it commonly works within prescribed boundaries and with censorship apparently.

Nah it's tedious. I'm going to run away. Btw, it's not a fight it's an argument with some extremely uppity and overly cocksure students.

I can't believe we live in a world where teachers are sacked for 'misgendering', Labour are about to make it a criminal offence with jailtime, old men are arrested in the middle of the night for observing about a Palestinian flag flying from our buildings, Canada has just passed a law for potential life imprisonment for speech crimes, and yet people still deny this stuff is going on. The young are growing up in an Orwellian world, they are conditioned and don't know how things have changed.

The teacher you are referring to is Kevin Lister. He was sacked for gross misconduct and rightly lost his subsequent tribunal.
He was employed to teach maths. Rather than focusing on teaching maths, he brought his own political agenda into the classroom and targeted a particular pupil for his political punching bag.
His sacking was not Orwellian, merely a failure on his part to act in the professional manner expected of a teacher. I’m surprised you don’t have enough experience of the workplace to understand this.

Didn't he Just refuse to call a bird a man?

I often feel 'tolerant' has become a but twisted, 'tolerance' has got us years and years of Tory decline, 'tolerance' has left us enabling the Trumps of the world.

Sometimes I think you need to... NOT tolerate things, like I'm not about to tolerate TSR members posting that if your skin isn't white you can't be British like a certain OP did last night.

Why?? The young generation on the left seem to feel very comfortable with the silencing of unacceptable opinions. Quite disturbing how they don't seem to recall or appreciate that in the previous era, speech was so much freer and this was treasured.

The Mayor of Brussels has disturbed the public by removing the liberties our forefathers fought and died for in the 1940s, he should therefore be arrested immediately

So you got moderated on a website after you violated the terms of service you previously agreed to and used that to conclude the left are authoritarian?
This is a bad argument. You were challenged on that and rather than offer a counter position, you got all huffy. How have you got to such a level of maturity that you call others very young yet you don’t seem to understand how a debate works in the adult world?

Also don’t agree with the idea that politic left has become authoritarian, I’ll hand that baton to the right.
Censorious? Ok I can somewhat see where people would be coming from but again I would say the same thing about the right.

To be honest, they're both as bad as each other.
The left have a nasty habit of legislating anything and everything as hate crimes or otherwise 'deplatforming' anything thats not agreed with. Be it anything gender/race related or the outrageous conduct in universities these days.

The right, to a lesser degree in ones view do similar things, theyre just bigger on angry rants and demanding the government do something for their own ends. Similar topics really, albeit reversed i.e. ending positive discrimination, things relating to the jewish state etc.