| | blogirish Orwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | But [John Stuart] Mill set the bar higher, arguing not just for the right of the public to have its beliefs and dissents upheld, but for what can amount to the opposite: the right of the dissenter to pick holes in such beliefs, regardless of truth or wisdom.... |
 | | If Mr Waters were less eccentric (is he not the "other" house maverick at the Irish Times?) and more in tune with post-modern Orwellspeak, he would realise that his advocacy of tolerance for eccentricity was in fact advocacy of marginalisation. |
 | | Now, eccentrics like Mr Waters can have his columns charitably spiked, trust ing his freedom of expression to be defended by fearless colleagues who "don't know exactly the sequence of events" but are nevertheless "sure" that, having "been at one remove from it over the weekend", they can leave him in the lurch. |
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