bloodyminded Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 I think we have already established where the limit is...in Canada (hate speech laws). The Williams' dust up is not a freedom of speech issue per se. I think this is a good point. The dust up is about a particular news/entertainment organization firing someone, and everybody disputing the actual reasons for its doing so. The HRCs are a far more crucial matter, in terms of free speech. Quote As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. --Josh Billings
bloodyminded Posted October 31, 2010 Report Posted October 31, 2010 (edited) I'll let Noam Chomsky explain. Come'on now. You're not gonna disagree with Ol'Noam now are you? ??? I'm astonished that you didn't even understand Chomsky's comments. I think you took a few of his introductory comments at face value, without bothering to pay attention to the explanation. (Which is why he criticizes the two-minute soundbyte formula of media-friendly political discussion...as he implies in the piece you offered.) His point was that the "extremes of liberal media" in the United States is considered to be NPR; and that NPR is extremely hostile to leftist thought. That was his point. It would probably help if you understood the context of his views generally: he doesn't consider himself a "liberal." He expends far more time criticizing liberals in power than he does conservatives. His condemnations, for example, of Barack Obama have been, in a fundamental sense, more harsh than most conservatives' criticisms. Edited October 31, 2010 by bloodyminded Quote As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. --Josh Billings
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