Tom Knighton writing at Town Hall provides a good analysis of the superficiality of the left’s invocation of philosopher Karl Popper to justify their devotion to “free speech for me not for thee,” as contained in their twist on what is referred to as Popper’s Paradox. The YouTube clip seen at the end of this post will video memoralize the profundity of the left’s claim to such a justification.
Popper’s Paradox And The Corruption Of ‘Tolerance’ (excerpt)
Meanwhile many on the far left have also misread Popper, again to no good ends. As stated here (by the left), and not altogether fairly, the paradox runs:
1. A tolerant society should be tolerant by default,
2. With one exception: it should not tolerate intolerance itself.
But Popper never believed anything like this. Rather, he wrote:
“I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise.”
This is no warrant here for laws against hate speech. On the contrary, Popper appears to have called such laws “unwise.”
To Popper, intolerance is not to be deployed when the utterance of intolerant ideas might make you uncomfortable, or when those ideas seem impolite, or when they get you really mad. Intolerance – if that’s the right word for it – is only warranted when we are already facing “fists and pistols,” or, presumably, worse.
Khightion adds more compelling analysis and he along with some of the readers’ comments fit pretty well with our view of left’s pseudointellectual anti-free-speech rallying cry and their black shirt enforcers,– the “antifa:, Black Lives Matter, By Any Means Necessary. The black-shirts are of course buoyed by the dominant left in academia and the media.
One of the reader’s comments we found particularly insightful:
It is total psychosis except that the social power of the left to define reality gives them the ability to pretend who is delusional and who is not, and there are too many of them in government and cabinet positions who are working daily to set the stage for a very bad political outcome that those <.01% are only the window dressing for.
Accordingly we wonder if maybe schizophrenia is indeed “the left’s disease.”
schiz·o·phre·ni·aˌskitsəˈfrēnēə, noun
a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
(in general use) a mentality or approach characterized by inconsistent or contradictory elements.
Of note as to where the agitation comes from:
Public School Teachers Behind Violent Antifa Group
And now for these intellectual giants in action:
R Mall
