{"id":20522,"date":"2015-04-03T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=20522"},"modified":"2015-04-03T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T16:24:19","slug":"mea-culpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/03\/mea-culpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mea culpa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I posted at TZP about the dangers of mainstreaming bigotry<\/a> and the folly of modern leftists thinking that their<\/i> bigotry is somehow superior to the bigotry of others.<\/p>\n

I was stunned when about half the reader response implied that I was opposing freedom of association.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a comment by PB, I went back and realized I’d written this phrase in the final paragraph of the article: “discrimination is wrong.”<\/p>\n

That’s simply a dumb statement. Discrimination is not wrong, certainly not categorically<\/i> wrong. It’s obviously something people do every day and something a free society would just cope with, no need for laws and regulations about it. Discrimination is wrong only when governments or government-sponsored enterprises practice it; but then that’s not news, since most everything governments do is wrong.<\/p>\n

I now kick myself for those three hastily chosen, dead wrong, words.<\/p>\n

I remain chagrined that three careless words obliterated everything else I was trying to say and thought I had<\/i> said. But that is simply the Way of the ‘Net. I know that. It was my fault and I walked into it with eyes that should have been wide open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I posted at TZP about the dangers of mainstreaming bigotry and the folly of modern leftists thinking that their bigotry is somehow superior to the bigotry of others. I was stunned when about half the reader response implied that I was opposing freedom of association. Thanks to a comment by PB, I went back and realized I’d written this phrase in the final paragraph of the article: “discrimination is wrong.” That’s simply a dumb statement. Discrimination is not wrong, certainly not categorically wrong. It’s obviously something people do every day and something a free society would just…<\/p>\n

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