It was stark raving madness on the radio. While most agreed Ann Coulter was being treated unfairly and that there's indeed a double-standard at play, there remains voices of nuttiness amongst us.
One panelist, really an idiot, believes "limits" are a must for free speech. Or if you prefer, censorship as a means to "preserve civilized" free speech. Yeah, he believed this was right.
How about this: Bullshit. Where does that pass on the limits scale?
Another guy, on the topic of religion and secularism, argued that if you allow religious instruction in schools you leave yourself open to creationism creeping into the schools.
I thought about one of my previous posts whereby the author presented a specious piece about how liberals are rational (did he check out the University of Ottawa by the way), when I heard this pseudo-humanist spew his opinion. So much for that piece. Into the garbage it goes. I won't even recycle it for fear it actually touches something else.
It's funny. I had religious instruction - Catholic no less - and didn't see my capacity to rationalize on any level diminished. In fact, I would argue the degradation and fall of educational standards probably began right around the time religion was under attack and removed from our schools. 100 years ago students, I'm willing to bet, were a helluva lot smarter than the ones of today. After all, ours graduate without speaking French properly or capable of writing a lousy paragraph.
The topic, specifically, was about how the Quebec Ministry of Education - the destroyers of education - consistently push a "Secular" agenda on the populace. Instead of fixing more immediate and grave problems, they dick around with whether day care centers are teaching about "Christmas" in their own private schools.
No joke. It's happening. I don't expect bureaucrats and people who accept the nanny-state to comprehend this but behind the scenes owners and parents are outraged and scared of the government. There you have it: The state is a bully.
But don't worry, we'll all "understand" one day. We'll catch up to them. The day I consider a bureaucrat my intellectual superior is the day I join the communist party.
Just give you an idea how far this guy was willing to go he called for a "religion police" to punish educators who dared talk about religion.
I feel dirty inside. This is not humanism. Italian humanists would never condone the bull shit that takes place among liberals. Ever. They believed in the free human soul. They believed that we should indeed free ourselves from the shackles of religion to challenge ourselves. To make man the center of our thoughts. Today, replace the Church with the State and the minions of faux liberals who march along its dead beat.
Someone needs to save liberalism from itself. They once stood for individual liberty and were most vocal against the rise of the state. What happened to them?
It's strange. As my wife and I sit and listen to all the craziness of the last few days, she said, "I'm taking the little one to Church Sunday."
I've tread some of Coulter's garbage. But she has every right to spew it. You don't want to hear it? Don't go to her conferences and don't read her.
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ReplyDeleteWell, no doubt she's made some eyebrow raising comments but she's actually quite humorous and actually does thrive on liberal hypocrisy.
If you allow Finkelstein or Moore or Chomsky to speak, then you MUST allow their right-wing opposites the right to speak as well. Either you censor all (which I'm against), or you have the courtesy and courage to let them all speak.
Then change the channel.