[MD] U.S. Values: the Jones

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> Who believes your "voice of individual freedom" to run around naked in public
> when you won't post a photo of your naked body on the internet?
> 
> [Arlo]
> I'm sorry, I believe in many freedoms that I don't personally partake in (such
> as calling others "niggers"). But your attempt to make this (again) into some
> huge slope issue is insipid. Believing one should have the freedom to go
> topless when one chooses has nothing to do with posting nude shots on line. 

It's "Do as I say, not as I do" with Arlo -- like so many other liberals,
documented in the book of the same name, subtitled "Profiles in liberal hypocrisy."

> [Platt]
> As for freedom to utter "nigger" I hope you've made clear your position that
> it's OK to your friends and associates on campus. Otherwise, hypocrisy fits the
> bill again.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Why yes, Platt. Once again you try to imply something that just ain't true. In
> every class I've been in where this has been discussed, I've sided with free
> speech. 

Glad to hear it. I take it then you against Jesse Jackson's call for a ban on
the word "nigger." 

> [Platt]
> The individual freedom I care about is free speech and participation in a free
> market that, to quote Pirsig, " . . .makes everybody richer by preventing
> static economic patterns from setting in and stagnating economic growth."
> Obviously, becoming rich is anathema to your Marxist views.
> 
> [Arlo]
> The Marxist criticisms I bring to bear are identical to Pirsig's. As for your
> selective application of "individual freedom", yes, I know, if it doesn't
> involve wealth or ethnic slurring, you could care less.

Are you saying Pirsig sympathizes with Marxism? I mean, do I have to repeat what
he said in Lila about the free market compared to socialism? W

> [Platt]
> Banning anything forced on the unwilling by a barbaric religious dictum is a
> blow in favor of intellect.
> 
> [Arlo]
> So much for individual freedom. Once again, it only means "to be like Platt".
> Question, are those little Jewish caps also ban-worthy, as they are also
> religiously enforced dress? What about Bindis? The  headresses worn by nuns?
> Should we ban those too? Oh wait, we're right back to all those unanswered and
> evaded questions from the actual thread. Think you can answer them this time?
> Should I repost them?

Yes. Repost them if you wish to again defend the barbaric religion of radical
Islam and its treatment of women. 

> As for banning religious dictums, does that mean you favor erasing "In God We
> Trust" from public currency, and that you think Christmas displays should be
> banned from public grounds? Why wouldn't these things be a "blow in favor of
> intellect"?

Why? Because the Christian religion does not demand the subordination of women
to men among other barbaric dictums. Your implied defense of such practices is
heartwarming.

> [Platt]
> Of course, you cheerfully bow before the stifling dictums of the academy so I'm
> not surprised you don't get it.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Yes, I know how upsetting it is for conservatives to have to produce
> intellectually sound arguments and tenable positions, without relying on
> propaganda and right-wing bully tactics. I bet it is "stifling" for you to have
> to do these things, so a law forcing relativism, and the demolishion of
> Intellect, is the right-wing way. Always has been, just ask Pirsig.

You still haven't explained how the intellectuals at Temple and Penn State
got "bullied" into establishing an academic freedom policy. It's interesting
to note that you are not in favor of such policies, yet claim to espouse
individual freedom. Hypocrisy yet again. 

> [Platt]
> As for laws requiring English, what's the policy at your university?
> 
> [Arlo]
> There is none as far as I am aware. Indeed, I lobby to make second (and third)
> language acquisition the norm. Monolingualism is a malady. Protect the word
> "nigger", forbid entire languages. What a joke.

How many languages are the College Boards written in besides English? Polish
perhaps? If not, hypocrisy strikes again.






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