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other's right to criticize your speech.
You're free to say (hypothetically: I do not accuse you of saying so) that you think Hillary deserves to be President precisely because she is a woman (a particularly idiotic sentiment directly expressed by one diarist yesterday). And I'm free to remind you that that's simple bigotry. You're free to demonstrate otherwise, or to say you think I'm a poopiehead, or talk about something entirely different. That's Free Speech.
But if you decide to argue that Hillary deserves to be President simply because she has XX chromosomes, then you have brought into the debate whole libraries of argument about biology determining behavior, gender creating moral value, and which stereotypically gendered qualities are good or bad to exhibit, and I suggest without malice that this is not a move you wish to make. That, too, by the way, is Free Speech.
So long as men die, Liberty will never perish. -- Charlie Chaplin, "The Great Dictator"
by khereva on Fri Jan 11, 2008 at 05:45:33 AM PDT
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Have a nice day.
"Time is for careful people, not passionate ones"
by roseeriter on Fri Jan 11, 2008 at 05:48:05 AM PDT
can be a problem.
When you figure out that I'm on your side, you let me know.
by khereva on Fri Jan 11, 2008 at 05:54:59 AM PDT
where you are coming from, but debating is not my strong suit.
But delighted that you are on my side. LOL!
by roseeriter on Fri Jan 11, 2008 at 06:11:46 AM PDT
wide narrow
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