After the end of Apartheid in 1994, nobody would have guessed that South Africa would be making many of the same mistakes as the Apartheid regime only two decades later, from censoring speech to violating agricultural property rights. In our process of transformation, we were supposed to move away from the Apartheid mentality.
Today's political climate is verging dangerously toward using force as a means of silencing opponents. Civil discourse is at a crossroads. We can either accept that violence will rule how we interact with others behind the protection of our computer screens (or openly in the public square) or we can decide to reign in intolerance in the name of tolerance.
Alex Jones has made good on his threat to release a recording of the entire, unedited interview he conducted with Megyn Kelly. The tape also includes pre-interviewer segments.
Jones has been fuming over NBC editing the interview Kelly conducted which according to Jones, makes him look like he has advocated causes he has never advocated for while taking other remarks totally out of context.
There's an argument that “political correctness” is just a bogeyman term invented to lash out against polite society without seeming crude or uncivil. That what we call “political correctness” is actually politeness, and we just don’t wanna be polite! But this is just plain wrong. There’s a difference between being PC and being polite, and I can prove it!
Pakistan: Taimoor Raza made derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammad and has been convicted of blasphemy and condemned to death. When freedom-of-speech is killed, justice dies with it. [...]
With definitions of left and right in flux, even among those who understood the historic definitions, it has become necessary to offer one possible solution to the crisis. This exercise is not meant to produce a document that everyone will agree upon, but rather it is designed to encourage others to peacefully contribute to the wider debate.
These solutions could be easily applied to the domestic affairs and international relations of almost any secular republic which respects mainstream religious traditions and cultures.
I. A Commitment To Sovereignty
Parallels between the world of Orwell’s 1984 and our own are increasingly obvious. We live in an ever-growing surveillance state and higher education is fast becoming a place where students expect not to be faced with or to contend with controversial ideas but to be protected from them.
Canada's bill C-16 will force citizens to use politically-motivated speech. The death of free speech kills negotiation, which is the only alternative to war. Postmodernists are waging an all-out assault on the West. [...]
Freedom-of-speech means nothing unless it means that people have a right say what they wish, even if it is offensive to some. We doubt that Bernie would respond in similar disgust if a Muslim candidate for office had said the same about Christians [...]
In the wake of the Manchester and London Bridge terror attacks, the Cheshire Police warned Facebook users to ‘think carefully about what they are saying’, because hate crimes bring hefty fines or up to two years in prison. [...]
