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Topics => World/Foreign Affairs => Topic started by: Glock32 on April 10, 2012, 11:38:40 PM

Title: video of Mark Steyn's speech to the Institute of Public Affairs (Australia)
Post by: Glock32 on April 10, 2012, 11:38:40 PM
This is lengthy at 35 minutes, but well worth watching:  http://vimeo.com/39384140 (http://vimeo.com/39384140)

Steyn cites a few examples of absurd ThoughtCrime I hadn't heard before, such as a 14 year old schoolgirl in Britain being taken to jail because she asked to do her science project with a different group of students, because the other 4 in her assigned group all spoke Urdu and she couldn't understand them.

Hearing things like that really makes you think our biggest mistake was not immediately rising up and lynching every petty bureaucrat who would dare such a thing. We should have nipped this BS in the bud and with extreme prejudice. Now our task is much harder. The slippery slope is real, that's why the Left has always ridiculed it as fallacious reasoning.