[armydawg505]

Fascists heterophobes who smash any opposing viewpoints because they know they can spread and put a halt to their homosexual advances. Interesting how these hard core liberals are wealthy to the point that they can escape the requirements they put on the rest of us.

[skeeter]

Any American who can’t see where these fascists are taking this country needs to have their pulse checked.

[trisham]

"The secret to happiness is freedom...
And the secret to freedom is courage."

~Thucydides

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[Old Sarge]

As Chuck Schumer observed:

“We’re United. You’re Not.”

That’s why they’ll win.

[a fool in paradise]

None of the pinkos are decrying THIS Hollywood blacklist.

Witchhunts apparently can be supported by Commies after all.

[chajin]

In two of my online college courses for two different colleges (unfortunately I don't teach either course any more, though I would like to), I had a discussion question related to the question of ethics, law, and civil disobedience, that was connected to the Socratic dialogue Crito, where the condemned Socrates is given the chance to escape prison and save his life, and he refuses, because that would make him a criminal, which would negate the fact that he was being condemned unjustly.

The question was very simple: "How is Socrates in the Crito like Sir Thomas More? Henry David Thoreau? Martin Luther King, Jr.? Flip Benham? How is Socrates not like each of the above?"

This, of course, meant that the students had to actually do some research on More, Thoreau, King, and Benham. Most of them thought they knew a lot about King, and had heard of Thoreau, but knew nothing of More or Benham.

Every time, it was the same. The vast majority of students (not counting the slackers) would essentially claim that Socrates, More, Thoreau, and King were men who were willing to stand for principle against the evils of society, and Benham was a [expletive] [expletive] [expletive] anti-choice extremist who deserved to be punished for keeping women from exercising their right to choose. It then fell upon me to spend the remainder of the week gently suggesting to the students that the way they thought of Benham was precisely the way segregationists had thought of King, slavers of Thoreau, Tudor-supporters of More, and Sophists of Socrates.

By the end of the week there was usually a grudging acceptance, some version of, "OK, Benham is forcing contemporary society to question its values, just like the rest of the people we wrote about, but he's still a [expletive] [expletive] [expletive] anti-choice extremist who deserved to be punished for keeping women from exercising their right to choose." I would, to myself and God, praise Him for small victories, and wait for the next term to do it all over again.