Sunday, November 27, 2005
freedom of speech thought
Freedom of thought is more fundamental than freedom of speech and, anyway, I suppose one can't curtail thought, but I just experienced the "pc" police assuming group-think. A commentator on my local NPR station who hosts a weekly show about ethics in journalism (is that an oxymoron these days?) was making a supposedly tossed-off eversofunny comment about riding his exercise bike in order to rev up his heart rate. He remarked that early every morning he watches Fox while riding because it gets his rate up so quickly to watch "those three shilling for the Administration". Good heaven! Why couldn't "those three" believe what they say? Agree with anyone you want and even say so . . . that's the beauty of this land of ours, isn't it? I was alarmed by the appalling assumptions but even more that no one offered even a tentative disclaimer or statement of any kind that this was simply his personal opinion. (And I thought the mid-twentieth century was the heydey of conformism.)
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