Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
19:57 - To coin a phrase
http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/003873.php
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Tim Blair links, and micro-fisks, this column by John Naughton:
In the current hysterical atmosphere, putting an anti-Bush poster in your window might result in a brick being thrown through it. Alternatively, of course, it might result in a ring at the doorbell and a neighbour saying 'Thank God someone has spoken out against this nonsense'. The point is that you cannot know in advance, and nobody is willing to take the risk.
Uh-huh.
That's the wonderful thing about our fascist police state: dissent is so easy, so protected, so mainstream, that you can formulate an entire genre of discourse about how your discourse is being suppressed and banished to furtive underground whisperings.
Whenever I see an article like this in the future, I'm going to think of it as the crushing of assent.
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