100 Years Of Beauty – Afghanistan
04 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of media and culture Tags: free speech
100 Years of Beauty | Pakistan
03 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics Tags: free speech
#AllahIsGay @golrizghahraman & family bigotry against not wearing the #hijab versus coming out as gay
02 Mar 2018 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of religion, gender, liberalism Tags: free speech, Leftover Left, political correctness
Our politically correct betters defend the right to wear the hijab and to come out as gay.
Are they equally tolerant of hostile reactions by a Christian family against coming out as gay and a Muslim family against a daughter casting off the hijab?
Both involve moral judgements about people expressing their right of free speech and free association.
https://twitter.com/ExMuslimTV/status/952680188017627136Rat bags do have rights but you still should call them out as rat bags for doing what they do.
https://twitter.com/groonhu/status/947305131225346048Does the left understand the difference between toleration and approval?
Our green MPs in New Zealand will defend to the death the right to wear the hijab.
https://twitter.com/ExMuslimTV/status/955384880300478464They and the Left forgets the I disagree with everything you say or do predicate to defending a right.
The Green MP Catherine Delahunty was right to politely but strongly criticise the modest dress of women at a farm run by a fundamentalist Christian sect in New Zealand and what it stood for in terms of the right to be the author of their own lives:
I looked at the gorgeous, yet regimented girls in their identical clothing and wondered how a physicist, an international lawyer or a plumber might blossom if the only role models she was exposed to were those in her own community. We agreed to disagree, because you can’t argue with religious certainty and a literal interpretation of a religious text.
This community feels they are under attack by people like me and throughout the day the women and men I met did their best to share their vision of a safe, structured and practical world led entirely by men who consult with women. I appreciated their generosity, their hospitality and their candour, but I also felt claustrophobic
Later buying fish and chips in Westport we talked to a group of young women who had chosen to travel down from Rotorua to study deep sea fishing. I found their sturdy independence a relief. Their world may not be so “safe” but they looked like they were living on their own terms.
It is a pity that her fellow green MPs do not extend this willingness to defend rights with a willingness to judge how those rights are exercised.
The fundamentalist Christians are not alone in ostracising those who stand up on their own two feet and chose to be the author of their own lives despite their family’s wishes.
https://twitter.com/rlolopez/status/890539940106338305
Lindsay Shepherd: The Linguistic Imperialism of the Left
25 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: free speech, political correctness
Fleeing Saudi blasphemy law. Finding Canadian blasphemy law.
13 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: Canada, free speech, Freedom of religion
Laura Kipnis: Political Correctness is Now Eating the Left Too
11 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, law and economics Tags: free speech, political correctness
Anti-‘Islamophobia’ laws threaten ExMuslim voices
11 Feb 2018 1 Comment
in economics of religion, liberalism Tags: free speech, political correctness
Free speech as a counter to conspiracy theories
08 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: conspiracy theories, free speech
“Infidel is a label that I now wear with pride.” – @Ayaan
07 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness
Truth and Power – Sarah Haider
26 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, liberalism Tags: free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness
The Knesset is the only place in the Middle East where Arabs can protest like this and live to tell the tale
23 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in Public Choice Tags: free speech, Israel
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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