May 29, 2009
What first amendment?
The Service Employees International Union is urging an NBC affiliate to pull an ad, by a group called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, which opposes socialized healthcare. The best line in the article: "The SEIU has not seen the ad..." Of course they haven't! Who needs information to form an opinion when the knee jerks so well?
Posted by Karol at May 29, 2009 11:10 AM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Conservatives+for+Patients’+Rights The+Service+Employees+International+Union
Always the strongest argument for me is the response "No, I/We haven't seen/heard/read...", from The Satanic Verses through to Jerry Springer The Musical. This response will always favour the other side first for me.
Posted by: bryan at May 29, 2009 06:31 PMKarol, I'm surprised that you're surprised.
This is a standard reaction of "mass social justice" system, well-described by an old Soviet classic: "Мы не читали, но осуждаем!" [We didn't read it but let us expressly condemn!]; I think it came about at the time of organized media persecutions of Boris Pasternak, after Dr. Zhivago was published abroad. (The novel was on Forbidden For Publication list domestically). That was in the 1950's...
Karol, free speech is only guaranteed to lefties, and Jihadists whom live in western societies.
Anything that a NON-lefty says is subject to being deemed inflammatory, hateful, disrespectful, divisive, or stupid, in which case the Orwellian Speech Police must snuff it out before people are "forced" to "hear" a different point of view.
Not surprisingly, Bryan manages to be totally incoherent even when saying something that makes sense.
Posted by: ThisMyNameIsHere at May 31, 2009 04:57 PMsad.
Posted by: bryan at June 1, 2009 07:39 PM
