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Usenet is also global in nature: whatever you post is just as likely to be read by someone in Santa Fe, N.M., as by somebody in Singapore--provided, of course, that your posted article is politically correct in the eyes of the Singaporan government...
Because everything's relative. (Or, philosophical skepticism in more academic circles.) This is the most common argument driving both multiculturalism and political correctness. It says: If you're intolerant of different beliefs and lifestyles, you're not only being arrogant (e.g. ethnocentric, phallocentric, etc.) in thinking that your values are the only right ones--you're also philosophically wrong to think that any conviction or lifestyle can be proven rationally to be correct, true, best or even better. No one is right, wrong, or closer or farther from the truth. Ergo, we should all be tolerant...
...specific incidents of violence he discusses. He presents no evidence that banning hate speech will prevent any such violent crimes. He does not appear to even consider that by banning hate speech, he may only make it more attractive to a fringe of society, and if his reasoning is correct, produce even more violence. Kilson repeats time after time that hate speech is dangerous, but fails to produce any concrete evidence proving why. Repetition does not make an assertion any more true. Jol Silversmith...
...That's just not correct," Reardon said. "The job has not been offered. A decision has not been made...
...workshop's goal, to make music. He discussed his pieces and performed them expertly on the piano, explaining that "form is not preset." This essentially meant that one could have free reign to play the notes in any tempo, rhythm, style or anything, as long as the correct pitches are used in the right sequence. All very heady stuff, but what was the musical result...