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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (63898)12/31/2002 2:15:51 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
which amounts to saying that anyone who criticizes the notion that settlers deserve to be shot is demonizing his critics, is pretty far along the demonization scale itself.

Hardly. Just bringing the value of dissent to the fore. So long as folk use this slippery slope logic of trying to brand disagreement and dissent as morally unacceptable, just so long is it in danger. Back to the editorial. We still don't know exactly what Stenhall said, what context he may have offered for those comments, or even if they were quoted accurately. And we should surely object when, even if they are accurately quoted from the appropriate context, they are then generalized beyond themselves.

That's the slippery slope.
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