From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Sep 06 2004 - 01:20:37 BST
DMB says:
> I'm guessing you're not American because there has been no shortage of
> angry shouting and screaming. The phrase "politically correct" has been
> uttered with contempt a hundred thousand times as a preface to the
> expression of some bigoted thought or attitude on talk radio, for example.
> And so I think its wildly inaccurate to refer to these hateful people as
> classical liberals. In contemporary American english, they are
> anti-liberal, they mock liberalism and its concerns, as you seem to be
> doing with your dismissive comments.
DMB's ringing defense of politically correctness is heartwarming.
Fortunately, free speech -- including the sort of speech DMB finds
"bigoted" -- is protected by the U.S. Constitution. I say fortunately
because the hatred, intolerance and bigotry DMB exhibits in condemning,
for example, talk radio is fully protected.
Platt
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