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| The true objective of "tolerant" intolerance |
| 2007-12-19 |
| Orrin Judd, of the "Brothers Judd" blog, commenting on Mark Steyn's prosecution by the Canadian Human Rights Commission: While, at first blush, the self-contradictory intolerance of the supposedly tolerant towards simple criticism of ideologies and the effective protection of the most intolerant of those ideologies can't help but seem odd to us it is important to recognize that the advocates are serving a higher cause, which is to so atomize the population as to make civic society an impossibility and render every individual dependent on the state. Thus the confusion about why America, the most notoriously conformist of modern countries, is so good at assimilation, while secular Europe, so tolerant and non-judgmental, is so ineffectual at integrating its immigrants. This latter result is precisely what the statist Left seeks, in order that its subjects, with too little in common to either trust one another or work in concert with one another, will cede ever more power over their own lives to the state in order to protect themselves from their neighbors. |
| Posted by:Mike |