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Hitchens is confused
HItchens and his throngs of blind supporters always seem confused about the concept of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech necessitates tolerance of the expression of the most obscene and offensive views. TOLERANCE DOES NOT NECESSITATE ACCEPTANCE as Hitchens and co seem to believe. We tolerate Nazi hate speech just like we tolerate ...
Posted to Fighting Words by poyan on August 19, 2009
The Eddie Murphy Quandary
I believe it was Eddie Murphy who framed the matter: why is it when white folk enter a haunted house, they choose to stay? Why is it that Hitchens' paints Pakistan in such a unfavorable, duplicitous, illegitimate, genocidal, untrustworthy light? For decades as a communist sympathizer, Hitchens wrote about how Western nations used proxy ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Usama2 on September 15, 2008