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Originally posted by wellard:
Why do the paranoid hate freedom of speech or expression so much? They go on and on about freedom of rights but if a train of thought goes against their beliefs they don’t blink when big business try’s to shut it down! If you feel that the film is misleading, watch it first for yourself then use the free press to ridicule it! Please don’t use the modern day method equivalent to stoning the producer and burning his medium
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Right behind you on this one! [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Khazadman Risen If more people here read Noam Chomsky, more people would despise him and the left.
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And Khazad, the
if is the whole point. The American right doesn't read Chomsky or anything similar because of this automatic disdain for the liberal. Yet we cannot ignore that whilst some of their points are just as daft as those coming from the far right, people like Chomsky still have important points to make, whether you agree with them or not.
It's the failure to even consider alternative points of view as having merit that is largely responsible for America's foreign policy performance.
[ 05-07-2004, 02:19 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]