17 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Mayhem at the mall: Hundreds of “teenagers” and “young adults” engaged in a rolling brawl at a shopping centre after some 1,000 “youths” suddenly showed up at the Pittsburgh-area mall late Friday.
    Okay, I’ve run out of “euphemisms.”

  2. This is priceless: Shameless demagogue Al Sharpton, who has built a career out of trying to score cheap points off the bodies of dead black youth, calls out the “cheap demagogues who are trying to score cheap points off the bodies of these police.”
    Related: Milwaukee Sheriff David Clark (who appears to be African-American, or at least half-black) compares Sharpton to “..a vulture feeding on a roadside carcass.”
    Good one.

  3. EBD, than you for extended Christmas music.
    Visa does it to the Russians.
    “Crimea was hit by multiple sanctions on Dec. 26 as Visa said has stopped processing cards and Ukrainian companies stopped transport communications and power supplies to the peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in March.”
    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/crimea-hit-by-multiple-sanctions-as-power-transport-and-banking-communications-are-cut-off-376206.html

  13. Stumbled across this audio (YouTube, 12 min) of a BBC Radio 4 debate about the “Rushdie affair and freedom of expression” between the pro-free speech Keenan Malik and an almost murderously sophistic (“I think the fatwa can be seen as a kind of point of interception between two political chains…”) sociologist named Tariq Mohood who believes in restrictions on offensive speech.
    Mohood exemplifies the sort of digressive hair-splitting intellectualization that allows one to step off the proverbial battlefield where the real-world, corporeal truth is being contested:

    “..the protests against the book predate the fatwa, and postdate the fatwa, and are not dependent on the fatwa..”

    A (highly) recommended companion-piece: Malik’s Fear and Free Speech.

  14. “Hard Leftists are as Guilty of Censorship as North Korea’s Dictator
    North Korea’s actions emulate those of hard-left feminists, radical Muslims, university administrations, and others who seek to prevent the publication or distribution of material they deem offensive.
    This alleged “right” to be free from being offended, is, of course, in direct conflict with the most basic of rights in any democracy: the right to express views deemed offensive by some, and the corollary right to hear or see such views.”
    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4989/censorship-north-korea

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