Quote: (04-05-2012 01:42 PM)Thorfinnsson Wrote:Case in point: John Derbyshire, who was fired by the National Review after writing this.
And it's not like racist comments are unpunished in America. You won't be punished by the law like in many other Western countries, but you will suffer social sanction and possibly career consequences.
Despite all the emoting that came in response to the article, there was no real criticism on the merits (at least not any that I've seen), but political correctness rules the day in the USA, and he was promptly axed (though I agree that he knew this would happen). Ironically, the same liberal elite calling for Derbyshire's head are probably giving their own children the same advice.
Will the uproar and his termination mean that parents won't give their kids similar warnings? Of course not. Same thing if you make these kinds of comments illegal. The discussion just goes underground. If the feminists succeeded in outlawing Roissy, Roosh, etc. content, would guys stop talking about it? No, we'd just be more careful about who we talked to.