John Stuart Mill on political correctness
28 May 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: John Stuart Mel, political correctness
There is nothing new under the sun – trigger warnings
27 May 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: free speech, political correctness, trigger warnings
I roamed all over Devonport on my bike when I was a lad. No more, no longer!?
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: child development, good old days, Helicopter parents, moral panic, political correctness
As a soon-to-be parent, I find this fascinating and terrifying. The diminishing range of children visualized: http://t.co/7NiFN9Eaw0—
Austen Allred (@AustenAllred) April 18, 2015
Aristotle on political correctness
25 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
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A word to left-wing students – Pat Condell
22 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: Pat Condell, political correctness, UK politics
Choosing to be offended – Pat Condell
21 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, economics of religion, liberalism Tags: Pat Condell, political correctness
George Orwell on free speech
08 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
#truth http://t.co/9Oe6dqFXOP—
Learn Liberty (@LearnLiberty) December 05, 2014
Reason for UKIP’s success?
23 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
Britain is a world leader in exporting creeps » Nick Cohen
05 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism, politics Tags: Jihadist, Nick Cohen, political correctness
The British recruits who have joined Isis are not exceptions. They flourish in a culture in which it is so commonplace to offer support to authoritarian regimes and movements that few bother to condemn it.
Free speech ought to mean the freedom to challenge and criticise in all except the most tightly defined circumstances. Instead in Britain tolerance has become indifference; a lazy desire to live in our comfortable bubbles.
The dominant culture views vigorous criticism as rude or insensitive – or, to use that popular and completely meaningless school-prefect putdown, “inappropriate.” More often that not, criticism is taken down and used as evidence of the critic’s failings, his or her obsessions and phobias.
We cannot be bothered to challenge fanatics. We say we don’t want to ‘force our views on others’ – as if argument were physical coercion. And if those others leave England to enslave Kurdish women, or applaud kleptomaniac dictators, we are not responsible. We never concerned ourselves with their affairs, nor argued with them for a moment.
Many poisonous plants have bloomed in this dank climate.
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