" His concern, ostensibly, is that someone might be petty enough not to see his movie simply because he spent years lobbying for laws that treated certain people as less than human. The fallacy he employs here — that calling out hate-speech is intolerance on par with curtailing the human rights of others — is a favorite fallback of cowards and bullies, and a way of evading responsibility for the impact of their words and actions.---No, Card gets exactly what his opponents get: the right to keep saying whatever he wants in his own space. What he doesn’t get is the moral high ground he’s so desperate to claim. He forfeited that long ago, and if his opponents’ tolerance is so vital to him now, perhaps he should have defined his public image by something other than intolerance."
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 04:28:08 +0000
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