My 25 year old daughter made an interesting comment today when she came over to help us with some chores.
Media-savvy youngsters give a lot of credence to childrens’s story writer JK Rowling (’Harry Potter’). They were weaned on her fantasy stories and movies.
Rowling may be an incorrigible nevertrumper, but she recently gave a Voltaire-like defense of Trump’s right to say what he has to say, after couching it in the usual “But I still can’t stand him” verbiage.
Not all young people are Sanders loons. This made an impression on the younger dice maiden, and I’m sure many other thoughtful youngsters,xat least here in the middle of America.
They see the duplicity of ‘liberals’ who try to deny others their right to peaceably speak and associate.
JK Rowling:
“Intolerance of alternative viewpoints is spreading to places that make me, a moderate and a liberal, most uncomfortable. Only last year we saw an online petition to ban Donald Trump from entry into the UK. It garnered half a million signatures. Now, I find almost everything that Mr. Trump says objectionable. I consider him offensive and bigoted. But he has my full support to come to my country and be offensive and bigoted there.
His freedom to speak protects my freedom to call him a bigot. His freedom guarantees mine. Unless we take that absolute position without caveats or apologies, we have set foot upon a road with only one destination.
If my offended feelings can constitute a travel ban on Donald Trump, I have no moral grounds on which to argue that those offended by feminism or the right for transgender rights or universal suffrage should not oppress campaigners for those causes. If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed a line to stand along tyrants who imprison, torture and kill on exactly the same justification.”
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11689244/jk-rowling-donald-trump-free-speech
Good for Rowling. And nice to see there are still youngsters who haven’t fallen sway to the leftist stuff.
However, with all due respect, I’d say that Voltaire, if anything, would have in reality been the type to actually gin up the anti-free speech mobs even WITH his quote. Don’t forget, he also tried to render Christianity extinct, not allow for ANY Christian voices within his university system. His idea of “freedom of speech” is to silence any Christian thought, so if anything, he’s closer to the snowflake SJWs, alongside his French Enlightenment buddies. Read this if you don’t believe me, per Timothy Dwight’s sermon:
http://www.wnd.com/2006/04/35810/#LFe1HvZ0eTHxBBmT.99