Melanias purse wrote on Jan 16
th, 2016 at 9:52pm:
Soren wrote on Jan 16
th, 2016 at 5:53pm:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Jan 16
th, 2016 at 12:25pm:
NSW Greens politician Mehreen Faruqi says she and her husband were subjected to "racial profiling" after being detained while trying to clear immigration control at Los Angeles International Airport.
What is wrong with racial profiling if a particular race or ethnicity is objectively over-represented in a crime?
Exactly. Why bother with all that PC police nonsense?
You'd just go and lock up the Pakis, shurely.
Tolerating the intolerant?
To address the prevailing, and ultimately self-destructive paradox that toleration and accommodation must be extended to the intolerant, as current government often programmes assume, it might be worth secular liberal multiculturalists attending to the thinking of a philosopher who understood the necessary conditions for maintaining an open society against its enemies.
Karl Popper, an émigré from the Third Reich, observed that ‘unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance’.
In fact ‘if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them’.
Popper continued that we need not ‘suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion’.
Yet as Popper presciently foresaw, ‘it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument’, but begin as Islamism does, by denouncing all argument. They may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments with violence.
Were he alive, Popper would no doubt counsel politicians today that a pluralist democracy must ultimately assert another kind of paradox, claiming that ‘in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant’. A robust democracy that does not comprehend this paradox cannot long endure.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12022249/Is-Western-stra...
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