Hitchens is at it again. He’s like a car accident – everyone know’s he’s horrible but they can’t look away. And most of all, everyone’s happy they’re not in the car themselves as it crashes against wall after wall after wall.
Christopher Hitchens and Genocide
“Basically, what Hitchens was proposing is genocide. Or, at least, wholesale execution of the population of the Moslem world until they are sufficiently cowed and frightened and depleted that they are unable to resist us in any way, ever again.”
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Myers is right: Hitchens is advocating genocide. Now, what we normally do with such people, in these sorts of situations, is isolate them: they are, after all, sick, and, furthermore, as history has shown, their sickness is sometimes very contagious.
He also gave a recommendation concerning the US presidential race… now whom could Hitchens recommend..?
Along the way he told us who his choice for president was right now – Rudy Giuliani – and that Obama was a fool, Clinton was a pandering closet fundamentalist, and that he was less than thrilled about all the support among the FFRF for the Democratic party.
How oh how did you know?
Speaking of Giuliani, do follow the link in the word “Nazi” (but not the one in “fat”):
We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don’t see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
There is freedom to and freedom from, the Aunts told Offred. You had freedom to, now you have freedom from. Only The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopic novel.
