Well done CNN – you got it right this time.

Topic by IRuleMe

IRuleMe

Home Forums Political Corner Well done CNN – you got it right this time.

This topic contains 3 replies, has 4 voices, and was last updated by Joetech  joetech 2 years, 8 months ago.

Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #495258
    +6
    IRuleMe
    IRuleMe
    Participant

    What in the world?

    Fareed Zakaria: Liberals think they’re tolerant, but they’re not

    (CNN)Fareed Zakaria said Saturday that though many liberals think they are tolerant, often they aren’t.

    Zakaria noted that “at the height of commencement season,” many new graduates across the country had made their political views apparent, from the Notre Dame students who walked out as Vice President Mike Pence gave his commencement address to the crowd members who booed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos during a speech at Bethune-Cookman University.

    “American universities seem committed to every kind of diversity except intellectual diversity. Conservative voices and views are being silenced entirely,” Zakaria said.

    The CNN host said he found this attitude strange, especially given that these incidents occurred on college campuses that “promised to give their undergraduates a liberal education.”

    “The word liberal in this context has nothing to do with today’s partisan language, but refers instead to the Latin root, pertaining to liberty. And at the heart of liberty in the Western world has been freedom of speech. From the beginning, people understood that this meant protecting and listening to speech with which you disagreed,” Zakaria argued.

    That means, he said, not drowning out “the ideas that we find offensive.”
    In addition, Zakaria noted what he called “an anti-intellectualism” on the left.

    “It’s an attitude of self-righteousness that says we are so pure, we’re so morally superior, we cannot bear to hear an idea with which we disagree,” he said.

    “Liberals think they are tolerant but often they aren’t,” he added.
    No one, he continued, “has a monopoly on right or virtue.”

    In fact, it is only by being open to hearing opposing views that people on both sides of the political spectrum can learn something, Zakaria said.

    “By talking seriously and respectfully about agreements and disagreements, we can come together in a common conversation,” he said.

    “Recognizing that while we seem so far apart, we do actually have a common destiny.”

    #495270
    +6
    Faust For Science
    Faust For Science
    Participant
    22589

    Such comments will likely get this man blacklisted from the corporate media.

    And I believe he is sugarcoating the situation.

    The SJWs are fascists. The are not just censoring opposing view, but SJWs are actively attacking those that disagree with the opinions of SJWs.

    #495397
    +1
    Y_
    Y_
    Participant
    4591

    Just my two cents on Fareed Zakaria

    This man is a muslim, a known muslim apologist and an immigrant so I do not think anyone in CNN will dare touch him or the leftists (oh irony!!!) will be after them. He is in a sense more dangerous than the SJW’s because they are stupid and he is really cunning.

    This man is a islamic democrat and a long-time supporter of US neocon policies in the Middle East. Very critical of Trump and Putin.

    He got owned by Putin once on a live TV panel for telling lies and twisting what Putin said once about Trump.

    He is also in my view mentally unstable and looks like a constipated rottweiler with VD that I once saw on National Geographic.

    This is the Putin video.

    #495404
    +1
    Joetech
    joetech
    Participant

    These students are in for a rude awakening when they get out into the real world and have to start earning a living. School’s out, let the games begin.

    "Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.