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Jonathan Rauch Powerfully Defends Free Speech
“We’re not delicate flowers.” __________ I like Rauch’s distinction between purism and pluralism: purism, on his account, protects from offensive speech, presuming that the community must be kept clean from the public expression of certain ideas; pluralism protects dialogue, presuming that … Continue reading
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Tagged college, dialogue, free speech, freedom of speech, life, racism, sexism, university, woody allen
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Three Grandmas Watch Something Naughty
Very naughty. A nice reminder that adults can see and hear things without the least harm. __________ I love the display of irony here because we all know that this is exactly how individuals tend to respond to “shocking” images … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, comedy, free speech, grandmas, humor, irony, offense, solidarity, truth
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Twitter Blasphemy: 18,000 Facebookers Call for the Death of Feminist Hamza Kashgari for Insulting the Prophet Muhammad
As of this morning, 18,000 is the number of Facebookers calling for the death of Hamza Kashgari for Twitter blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad. The number was 8,000 on Thursday, 13,000 on Friday, and 16,000 on Saturday. Does anyone know … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, facebook, feminism, free speech, freedom of speech, hamza kashgari, Islam, liberty, mark twain, muhammad, Muslims, Voltaire, women's rights
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Twitter Blasphemy: 16,000 Facebookers Agree That Hamza Kashgari Should Be Executed for Insulting the Prophet
The number of people who have joined a Facebook page calling for the death of Hamza Kashgari for Twitter blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad has climbed from 8,000 on Thursday to 16,000 this morning (I just checked the page). Yesterday, … Continue reading
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Tagged blasphemy, censorship, free speech, hamza kashgari, human rights, Islam, john stuart mill, liberty, muhammad, twitter
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Note to Self: Don’t Text at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
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Tagged assholes, breaking rules, cell phones, cinema, free speech, life, movies, phones, private property, rules, texting, theatres
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Australian Sentenced to 500 Lashes in Saudi Arabia
Mansor Almaribe, an Australian man visiting Saudi Arabia, didn’t insult the Prophet Muhammad, but one of Muhammad’s companions. It was enough. The Australian reports the result: a sentence of 500 lashes and a year in prison. Isn’t Sharia grand? The … Continue reading
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Tagged australia, free speech, human rights, intolerance, Islam, muhammad, Saudi Arabia, sharia, stupidity
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Islamists Firebomb Charlie Hebdo Magazine. Time’s Bruce Crumley Blames the Magazine.
This is simply breathtaking for its grotesqueness. A French newspaper practices freedom of the press, printing some satire directed toward Islam; the paper is subsequently firebombed by religious fanatics; and Bruce Crumley, Time magazine’s bureau chief in Paris, castigates the … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, free speech, freedom of the press, God, Islam, Jesus, muhammad, Paris
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Youcef Nadarkhani Execution Watch: Where’s President Obama on This?
In a recent Washington Post opinion piece on Youcef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor under a death sentence for apostasy in Iran, Jordan Sekulow describes Nadarkhani’s attorney as: . . . a brave Muslim who has been sentenced to nine years in prison and banned from … Continue reading
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Tagged free speech, freedom of religion, human rights, Iran, Islam, muhammad, Muslims, president obama, save youcef nadarkhani, youcef nadarkhani
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China vs. America: Advantage the United States (Because of Its Mind Wells)
If a recent projection is to be believed, China and the United States will be at gross domestic product parity sometime around 2016 (each country with a GDP in the 18-20 trillion dollar range). And because China’s growth is likely … Continue reading
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Tagged China, conscience, economics, feminism, free speech, freedom, Harvard, mind wells, Saudi Arabia, silicon valley, United States, women's rights
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Dearborn Free Speech Watch: ACLU Supports Pastor Terry Jones’s Right to Free Speech Outside of an Islamic Center
Great news! The ACLU filed a friend of the court brief in favor of Pastor Terry Jones’s right to speak outside of an Islamic Center in Dearborn, Michigan. The following was in the Detroit News on Friday: The ACLU’s brief … Continue reading
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Tagged America, feminism, free speech, freedom, human rights, Islam, Martin Luther King, muhammad, Muslims, terry jones, the first amendment, Thomas Jefferson
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Dearborn Free Speech Watch: Pastor Terry Jones, Islam, and the First Amendment
I thought that what Pastor Terry Jones did in Florida recently (burn a Quran) was within his rights, but a tactically stupid move. On matters of religion and culture, you don’t needlessly provoke war-torn, illiterate, and impoverished people thousands of miles … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, free speech, freedom of religion, Islam, Jesus, muhammad, Muslims, protest, the constitution, the first amendment, Thomas Jefferson
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American Imam Kamal Al-Khatib, Thomas Jefferson, and the Constitution of the United States
Kamal Al-Khatib is an American imam with a congregation and school in northern Los Angeles County, and in an interview conducted at his mosque late last year (now up in its entirety on YouTube), I asked him about Thomas Jefferson. The question clearly … Continue reading
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Tagged America, free speech, God, Islam, kamal al-khatib, Muslim, religion, sharia, the constitution, the law, Thomas Jefferson
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What’s the Greatest Threat to Free Speech?
I think a big threat to free speech that the above commentors missed is this: career building self-censorship. You may have ideas that you want to express, but you’re going through tenure, or fear a potential employer won’t like them, or you want … Continue reading
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Tagged America, atheism, free speech, freedom, minorities, reason, Thomas Jefferson
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DADT Meldown Watch: Linda Harvey Bemoans the Loss of Disgust
The politics of disgust having failed, Linda Harvey, of Mission America, writes the following zinger in the wake of the repeal today of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT): Now it’s a toss-up as to which movement will take down our country … Continue reading
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Tagged air force, America, dadt, free speech, gay equality, gay marriage, marines, navy, politics of disgust, rush limbaugh, women's rights
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China’s Quiet Brain Drain (Contrasted with America’s Mind Wells)
Do you live in a brain drain society (like China) or a mind gathering—or mind well—society (like the United States)? The Atlantic’s James Fallows has been living in China for many years, and recently made this astute observation: Because 95 percent of the world’s population … Continue reading
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Tagged America, brain drains, China, free speech, freedom, John Locke, Liu Xiaobo, mind wells, San Francisco, the 21st century, the Enlightenment, the future
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Total Message Control Solution #1: Just Handcuff Any Journalist Who Asks Questions That You Don’t Want to Answer
Total message control (that is, the Palin model) was on disturbing display on Sunday in Alaska. This from Glenn Greenwald: [P]rivate “guards” working for GOP Senate nominee Joe Miller forcibly detained and handcuffed a journalist as he tried to ask the candidate questions … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, authoritarianism, conservatism, free speech, journalism, Politics, rush limbaugh, tea partiers, tony hopfinger
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Quote of the Day
From an interview with Rutgers philosopher and cognitive scientist, Jerry Fodor: God provided us with tenure so we could do our best to say what’s true. I’m doing my best.
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Tagged Charles Darwin, evolution, free speech, God, integrity, jerry fodor, philosophy, speaking truth to power, tenure, truth
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Did Atheist Physicist Lawrence Krauss’s Questioning of a Religious Person Cross a Boundary into Intolerance?
Physicist Lawrence Krauss, in a recent brief essay for Scientific American, recounts what happened to him when he asked, in a public forum, a simple question of a religious man. Krauss wanted to know how the man reconciled his religious views with his scientific … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Catholicism, censorship, free speech, God, Jesus, lawrence krauss, Richard Dawkins, self censorship, the Bible
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Steven Novella, the Ambivalent Blasphemer
At SkepticBlog this past week, Steven Novella endorses blasphemy as social protest (sort of): There are those, for example, who champion blasphemy as a form of social protest. PZ, Penn and Teller, Christopher Hitchens and others argue that nothing should … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, blasphemy, Christianity, democracy, family, free speech, Islam, Jesus, Mohammad, Prometheus, steven novella, the oresteia
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Prometheus Unbound 