Libel and hypocrisy

Recently, I had a discussion here with a friend of mine. I held that it is perfectly coherent to publicly support basic equal rights for ethnic, racial, and sexual minorities, while still making privately jokes about their ways of life. My friend accused me of hypocrisy. Now here’s a quote from Bhikhu Parekh: “In most [...]

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Multiculturalism: an oppressive type of politics

[Article written on December 3, 2007] I would really like to know what the proponents of multiculturalism, communitarianism and identity politics have to say about these three recent cases: 1) The case of the teacher Gillian Gibbons, who was sentenced to jail in Sudan because she allowed her class to call a teddy bear “Muhammad”. [...]

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Liberalism versus communitarianism: the individual and his cultural group

As far as I can see, in what concerns the relation between an individual and his cultural group, communitarians could endorse one of the following two claims: (1) The group is ontologically, but not politically, prior to the individual. As a consequence, the interests of the group should be protected, but when these interests conflict [...]

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Gender Fundamentalism and Hate – part II

[Article written on February 21, 2008] UPDATE. George has also commented Iddo Landau’s talk and the reaction of gender fundamentalists here. The first example of political correctness and gender stupidity (this is taken from a serious philosophical text): “One way to flesh this idea out is to pretend that there is a superbeing, GOD, who [...]

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Multiculturalism. Don’t look, if your heart is too weak!

[Article written on March 1, 2008] For English readers and for all those who are multiculturalists: you can find something about the torture of women and children in Islam now. Please click here. And if you want to learn how to beat your wife, here. Pentru cititorii romani: pe blog-ul lui Manu, chaos_and_smiles posteaza urmatorul [...]

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