tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post2617359169935564582..comments2024-03-22T11:55:50.335+13:00Comments on Not PC: And this is why the anti-concept of "hate speech" was inventedPeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-47799618966347956772018-08-09T20:23:29.908+12:002018-08-09T20:23:29.908+12:00Excellent piece, the chief argument I get from tho...Excellent piece, the chief argument I get from those on the centre-left is that they want to ban mean people shouting out racist terms of abuse. This means that although insults are legal, some are not, which is a slippery slope. Of course it's not about that really, it's about sustaining the identity politics hierarchy of "dominant, oppressor" over "oppressed". <br /><br />The hypocrisy is that it's just FINE, for those on the left to hate all of the categories of people they deem to be dominant, or oppressors. So it isn't really about protecting anyone from hate, although some well meaning people certainly think that, it is more about constraining the scope of speech and extending such constraints (e.g. the talk about "climate change deniers" is casting language about political debate in the same light as Holocaust denial, which is banned in many countries).<br /><br /> Libertyscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-88272876527342139832018-08-08T18:33:24.010+12:002018-08-08T18:33:24.010+12:00You said: "I question why the ... 'alt-ri...You said: "I question why the ... 'alt-right' term appears here."<br /><br />Yes. You would.Peter Cresswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-61869857201176852452018-08-08T18:18:04.874+12:002018-08-08T18:18:04.874+12:00“So it is today with the alt-right and their fello...“So it is today with the alt-right and their fellow travellers.”<br /><br />I question why the anti-conceptual “alt-right” term appears here, as opposed to “Marxist,” “Maoist,” or “neo-Marxist” or similar. The author could be accused of reflexive bias against what is conventionally called the political right. Not so long ago Thomas Piketty was benefitting from Streisand selling “rebel chic” economic fallacies of the left with almost universal appeal. The “alt-right” term has been drafted to “obliterate the legitimate” albeit conventional political spectrum positioning. <br /><br />In reality the placement of policies of the left and right must be decided by the degrees of freedom preserved. Force is illegitimate from either swing of the pendulum. “The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: <a href="http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/politics.html" rel="nofollow">capitalism versus socialism</a>, or freedom versus statism.”<br /><br />It was bad enough decades ago when “undefined rubber-terms of “<a href="http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/politics.html" rel="nofollow">conservatism</a>” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men.<br /><br />“Alt-right,” the anti-concept, is designed to shut down debate and discredit what in fact may be legitimate and realistic political positions held by rational individuals. Some, not all.<br />gregsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04786701115887458801noreply@blogger.com