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CNN's Zakaria: Liberals Aren't Tolerant and Suffer from 'Anti-Intellectualism' |
2017-05-30 |
[LI] Fareed Zakaria said Saturday that though many liberals think they are tolerant, often they aren’t. Zakaria noted that "at the height of commencement season," many new graduates across the country had made their political views apparent, from the Notre Dame students who walked out as Vice President Mike Pence gave his commencement address to the crowd members who booed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos during a speech at Bethune-Cookman University. "American universities seem committed to every kind of diversity except intellectual diversity. Conservative voices and views are being silenced entirely," Zakaria said. The CNN host said he found this attitude strange, especially given that these incidents occurred on college campuses that "promised to give their undergraduates a liberal education." "The word liberal in this context has nothing to do with today’s partisan language, but refers instead to the Latin root, pertaining to liberty. And at the heart of liberty in the Western world has been freedom of speech. From the beginning, people understood that this meant protecting and listening to speech with which you disagreed," Zakaria argued. That means, he said, not drowning out "the ideas that we find offensive." In addition, Zakaria noted what he called "an anti-intellectualism" on the left. "It’s an attitude of self-righteousness that says we are so pure, we’re so morally superior, we cannot bear to hear an idea with which we disagree," he said. "Liberals think they are tolerant but often they aren’t," he added. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#5 Actually the Roman satirist Juvenal got it right a long time ago: "Nosse wolunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo." (Loose translation: Everyone wants to know things, to seem knowledgeable, but no one is willing to pay the price (of long, disciplined study.) So much easier just to parrot the party line and have everyone tell you how intelligent you are rather than, you know, actually study and work hard. |
Posted by: Tom 2017-05-30 14:08 |
#4 When the man is right, he's right. IMO, most leftists are second raters who know (though will never admit it even to themselves) that they're second raters - the rest is just human nature |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-05-30 10:52 |
#3 Modern progressive liberalism is a doctrine of hate and envy. That's it. That's all they've got. |
Posted by: Iblis 2017-05-30 10:24 |
#2 Zakaria is a lying sack of you-know-what. If he says the sun's out, you know it's midnight. |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-05-30 09:37 |
#1 "Liberals think they are tolerant but often they aren’t," See - Freudian Projection |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-05-30 09:30 |