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Please inform us Pat, what is the benefit to society of tolerated, open racism.
What is the benefit of one section of a society FORCING other members of a society to think as they do.
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Please inform us Pat, what is the benefit to society of tolerated, open racism.
... The Fundamentalists are fond of arguing slippery slope theories of this leads to that. ...
How convenient. Wave a spectre of your imaginary future rather than reality. The Fundamentalists are fond of arguing slippery slope theories of this leads to that. Good company you keep there. Bad syllogism. Bad argument.
Hatred and not accepting another lifestyle are two different things. Plenty of people do not understand or accept gays, but they aren't actively teaching hate nor do they treat gays with hatred.
And this good woman got rid of alcoholism. Right minded people shut down the bars and destroyed the freedom to have open alcoholism.
Did she succeed in her quest?
...Classy comparison...
The principle is the same. The elite telling the proletariat what to do and think.
Plenty of these people have kids and are teaching these beliefs to them by just being their Parents. ….
Is that how Australians got away with poisoning Aborigine wells ..
The principle is the same. The elite telling the proletariat what to do and think.
I agree with you. Criminals, second-generation welfare recipients and those parents with more than 5 offspring should be silently disinseminated.
This.
I'm totally fine with racists and homophobes and everybody else spouting their views, even from the loudest pulpits, to the largest audiences possible. Because stamping out those voices doesn't give the impression that these views are wrong. It gives the impression that these views are DANGEROUS. Which leads to people becoming interested in them. The forbidden fruit factor and all that.
This.
I'm totally fine with racists and homophobes and everybody else spouting their views, even from the loudest pulpits, to the largest audiences possible. Because stamping out those voices doesn't give the impression that these views are wrong. It gives the impression that these views are DANGEROUS. Which leads to people becoming interested in them. The forbidden fruit factor and all that.
The proper response to voices espousing racism and homophobia and all else isn't to ban them out right - it's to counter them. To explain why those vantage points are wrong. I mean, you CAN do that, can't you? Because if you can't, maybe you need to take another look at your stances.
From the start, I've said the right move here isn't to kick the guy off the show. It's to send a busload of gays up to visit them, and film a two-hour "special" episode.
Lex
So when one kid calls a black kid a ni**** in class, the teacher should do nothing because you are giving it the appeal of the forbidden. Nor should the class expect or react or pressure the kid out of calling him that. That would make a civil society, wouldn't it?
Maybe you don't realize that what you're saying people "should do" shifts all of the constant burden onto a few groups of people who apparently have the obligation now to sit and have a long debate every single time they experience open and freely tolerated hate or racist rhetoric directed at their group, and perhaps you also overestimate the degree to which anyone calmly trying to talk someone out of that has any effect.
People actually caring about this incident…I don't know. Does anyone actually watch their show?
Nothing like a little ..
I never mentioned the 'r word'
... People really have selective reading problems.
...What's in your stocking?
This.
I'm totally fine with racists and homophobes and everybody else spouting their views, even from the loudest pulpits, to the largest audiences possible. Because stamping out those voices doesn't give the impression that these views are wrong. It gives the impression that these views are DANGEROUS. Which leads to people becoming interested in them. The forbidden fruit factor and all that.
The proper response to voices espousing racism and homophobia and all else isn't to ban them out right - it's to counter them. To explain why those vantage points are wrong. I mean, you CAN do that, can't you? Because if you can't, maybe you need to take another look at your stances.
From the start, I've said the right move here isn't to kick the guy off the show. It's to send a busload of gays up to visit them, and film a two-hour "special" episode.
Lex
All the people who say he's just expressing his right to freedom of speech are basically just saying "I agree with him 100%! Rake those fags over the coals!"
