Everybody's got a line where "freedom" stops, be it of expression, opinion, worship or other.
And that line comes long before you're affected personally and directly.
Take a hot-button issue in Europe, that no-one wants to touch: genital mutilation.
It's a clear violation of the rights of the child and assault on its bodily autonomy, as today's parlance has it.
Yet it is both legal and illegal at the same time, depending on the race of the perpetartor and the race of the child.
Jew? Legal and even a "right". Moslem? Depends on race and the gender of the child. Arab or negro and and a boy child? Legal. A girl? Illegal. (With variance in different jurisdictions.) Indigenous white europan? A heinous crime that may land you in an asylum for the criminally insane.
So clearly rights are dependent on race, not being a human?
Because if rights are dependent on being human and all humans have the same rights, well then either those races not mutilating children have it wrong, or the other ones have it wrong. Both can't be in the right at the same time.
If rights are dependent on race, and one race imposes its rights on all who share that race's territory, then right are a function of race and of compliance with the limitations of rights set by the race in charge.
And that is why the Mencken quote is wrong: it presupposes that those humans concerned already share the same fundamental values and codes for what is right and a right. When virtually everyone is a european(-descendend) white christian (of any denomination), at leastculturally, any conflict on rights will be at the margins: "topless beaches, yeah or nay?" type of disagreements.
But when you mix, you instead get "whistling in public is a sin against god-of-choice" or "unbelievers can't ride the same buses as true believers".
Once again, a stellar comment section, worth waking up to with morning coffee. Reminds me there are still some elegantly articulate, witty, educated and clear-sighted people left in the world. Thank you SC.
When the Lapdogs of The Apocalypse talk of “free speech”, they don’t mean your speech or mine, but only their own unfettered control of what we may be permitted to know about or understand, let alone what we may ask about.
"I've always advocated for, like, a discord, approach to twitter."
What the hell? Freudian, much?
I have a confession. I have never heard of this Taylor chickie (am not American). But if this vacuous, vapid, illiterate, imbecilic chit is an example of your journalist stock - or even of your young(ish?) people in general - then you are in big, big trouble.
The Alfa dealership swore the cat mechanic didn't work on my vehicle ( in for it's semi-weekly maintenance ), but I couldn't help but notice 4 claw marks surrounding the cigarette that was stubbed-out on the console ... looking for a left-pawed import cat mechanic -- might use the window like most smokers
I’m today years old before I ever heard the screeching dissonance that is Taylor Lorenz’ voice. Of COURSE she’s a woman in her late 40s with vocal fry and an uptick! riGHT!? 😂
Also, presstitutes is my new favorite word. Did you invent that, SimCom?
Those damn periods...... sorry, couldn’t resist. 10 K v 1.1 M.... uneffingbelievable!!! People keep saying that Republicans need to play dirty .... my idea is that both parties should want free, fair elections. And misrepresenting employment stats is definitely not fair.
Everybody's got a line where "freedom" stops, be it of expression, opinion, worship or other.
And that line comes long before you're affected personally and directly.
Take a hot-button issue in Europe, that no-one wants to touch: genital mutilation.
It's a clear violation of the rights of the child and assault on its bodily autonomy, as today's parlance has it.
Yet it is both legal and illegal at the same time, depending on the race of the perpetartor and the race of the child.
Jew? Legal and even a "right". Moslem? Depends on race and the gender of the child. Arab or negro and and a boy child? Legal. A girl? Illegal. (With variance in different jurisdictions.) Indigenous white europan? A heinous crime that may land you in an asylum for the criminally insane.
So clearly rights are dependent on race, not being a human?
Because if rights are dependent on being human and all humans have the same rights, well then either those races not mutilating children have it wrong, or the other ones have it wrong. Both can't be in the right at the same time.
If rights are dependent on race, and one race imposes its rights on all who share that race's territory, then right are a function of race and of compliance with the limitations of rights set by the race in charge.
And that is why the Mencken quote is wrong: it presupposes that those humans concerned already share the same fundamental values and codes for what is right and a right. When virtually everyone is a european(-descendend) white christian (of any denomination), at leastculturally, any conflict on rights will be at the margins: "topless beaches, yeah or nay?" type of disagreements.
But when you mix, you instead get "whistling in public is a sin against god-of-choice" or "unbelievers can't ride the same buses as true believers".
Good luck solving this!
Once again, a stellar comment section, worth waking up to with morning coffee. Reminds me there are still some elegantly articulate, witty, educated and clear-sighted people left in the world. Thank you SC.
You want to know why Taylor Lorenz has that attitude, read gato malo's retrospective on the high and mighty's fake slumming:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/fear-the-floof
When the Lapdogs of The Apocalypse talk of “free speech”, they don’t mean your speech or mine, but only their own unfettered control of what we may be permitted to know about or understand, let alone what we may ask about.
"I've always advocated for, like, a discord, approach to twitter."
What the hell? Freudian, much?
I have a confession. I have never heard of this Taylor chickie (am not American). But if this vacuous, vapid, illiterate, imbecilic chit is an example of your journalist stock - or even of your young(ish?) people in general - then you are in big, big trouble.
Please tell me she's an outlier.
The Alfa dealership swore the cat mechanic didn't work on my vehicle ( in for it's semi-weekly maintenance ), but I couldn't help but notice 4 claw marks surrounding the cigarette that was stubbed-out on the console ... looking for a left-pawed import cat mechanic -- might use the window like most smokers
That cat changed my water pump...did a good job at a reasonable price.
Four paws up!
I’m today years old before I ever heard the screeching dissonance that is Taylor Lorenz’ voice. Of COURSE she’s a woman in her late 40s with vocal fry and an uptick! riGHT!? 😂
Also, presstitutes is my new favorite word. Did you invent that, SimCom?
No, it's been in use for a long, long time -- though popularized in the early 2010s for modern times.
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Presstitute (press + prostitute)
3 November 1941, Waterloo (IA) Daily Courier, “Walter Winchell on Broadway,” pg. 20, col. 1:
Suggested nickname for newspapermen who can be bought: Presstitutes.
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But when researching this, I came across this wonderful nugget:
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“Presstitute” has frequently been used with the term “whorespondent” (whore + correspondent).
Nothing beats portmanteaus!
Well, where the hell have I been? Kids these days (checks notes, 1941) 🤣🤣🤣
" You'll pay for Heidrichs !" ... oh, sorry ... that was " Czech Notes, 1941"
Or the previous head is the CIA
the one that went missing during the stolen election
Those damn periods...... sorry, couldn’t resist. 10 K v 1.1 M.... uneffingbelievable!!! People keep saying that Republicans need to play dirty .... my idea is that both parties should want free, fair elections. And misrepresenting employment stats is definitely not fair.
Any 2nd grader could make this mistake, and we're being ageist if we hold government officials to a different standard.
It's hilarious how OBVIOUSLY hypocritical these turds are. Get outta mai punchbowl already!!!
But the mecatnick is terrific. I send sweet whiskerings to him.
Hey Taylor, get me back on Tw.
I say 2 weeks and I get dp. I'm going after Musk.
Good post! And Jan 6 criminal referrals just breaking. Who gets to criminally refer the jan 6 committee dems and rinos?
maybe someday substack will see fit to add the edit button to their ios app
If Musk would just appoint ME, I could get the whole thing burned down a lot faster.
"Rome wasn't built in a day, but we can level it in 12 hours."
Vae victis.
I demand Twitter release more video of TayLo crying.
We have a right to know.
RE Mencken and freedom of expression in the U.S., I put up a much longer excerpt from his National Letters essay here: https://arnec.substack.com/p/hl-mencken-on-newspapers-and-the
I love that guy!