LESSONS IN LOGIC: Calling Something ‘Hate Speech’ IS Hate Speech
Originally posted on The Oil for Your Lamp:
We live in a society where it is increasingly popular to label something we do not like or want to hear as ‘hate speech.’ Then we seek to silence it based on the assumption that ‘hate’ should not be allowed. The problem with this line of thinking…
DEFENDING THE LANGUAGE: The Definition Of Xenophobia
Originally posted on The Oil for Your Lamp:
If you have been reading anything political on Face Book or the blogosphere, you no doubt have seen the claim that those who are concerned about the changes being forced on their society by Islamic immigrants are ‘xenophobic.’ But are they? Or do the people making these…
