[MD] Barbarian attack

[MarshaV]

Greetings Platt,

Here's some political correctness for you:  ALL RELIGIONS 
SUCK!!!   I'm outraged by all of them.

Marsha


At 08:48 AM 2/15/2006, Platt wrote:
>To All:
>
>A blatant attack by barbarians on the intellectual value of free speech
>is now underway in many parts of the world. Yet who among are
>intellectual elite are speaking out against the mobs who attack Western
>businesses and embassies over a cartoon? Not many. Instead we hear
>words of appeasement, such as the U.S State Department's press officer,
>Janelle Hironimus who said, "Inciting religious or ethnic hatred in
>this manner is not acceptable." So much for free speech which is not
>free if it does not include the freedom to offend.
>
>What we are witnessing is the whirlwind from years of political
>correctness as codified in university speech codes, supported by
>decades of preaching with arrogant moral certainty the overriding
>virtue of tolerance. After all, no one is to blame for anything; each
>is nothing but a product her culture. And as we all know, no culture
>can be thought to be superior to any other.
>
>In Pirsig's hierarchy of morals, among the highest is the intellectual
>value of free speech. That more intellectuals are blind to this value,
>trumpet moral relativism and fail to take to the ramparts to defend
>free speech against assaults by barbarians is the shame of our time.
>When histories write the postmortem on the West, this will be among the
>causes of death.
>
>Platt
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