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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (12683)4/30/2001 6:29:41 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
You are saying, then, that she should not have had the right of free speech on a matter she believed in because . . . well, because why? Because you disagree with her position? Because you don't think poor women have a right to hear certain opinions? Because you think poor women can't think for themselves and therefore have to be protected from the marketplace of ideas? If not those, why?

She was advocating a belief. Something we do here daily on SI. A right Americans take for granted. Yet she can't have it.

Hmmm.