I never thought Id live to see the day when the Left would argue for censorship and against free speech. Oneill argues here that its an attempt to send us back to a way of thinking that preceded the Enlightenment. The Left are supposed to be progressive but in this case they want us to go way backwards. Today, the call for censorship is driven by a view of the public as fickle, easily led, susceptible to hatred and stupidity—in short, by a pre-Enlightenment view of the little people as creatures who must be fed a preordained truth because they are incapable of working out the truth for themselves. That is what underpins the cries to keep Section 18C on the books: a fear that if the public were to hear racist ideas, those modern-day falsehoods, then they would be warped by them and potentially made violent. And so a new caste of ‘great men’ must protect us from evil thought and twisted ideologies.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 04:26:52 +0000
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