Totally pissed off with Bill Shorten. After a hundred years of fighting for womens rights how on earth can the Labor Leader argue in favour of the Burqua? Has political correctness now taken us back to the dark ages. He might as well argue for husbands e to be able to prevent their wives from leaving the house unless they are on a dog lead. Abbott is there because many voted against Rudd are they all going to see the rights of women as something theyre willing to compromise on? No matter how bad Abbott is Im thinking most people will see the rights of women as non-negotiable. This brings us back to the paradox of tolerance. Im with Karl Popper on this Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.” ― Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:37:04 +0000
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