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oberliner

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6. "If a large enough group of someones is willing to kill you for saying something...

Reply to Maedhros (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 9, 2015, 09:10 PM

Jan 2015

then it’s something that almost certainly needs to be said, because otherwise the violent have veto power over liberal civilization, and when that scenario obtains it isn’t really a liberal civilization any more."

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/the-blasphemy-we-need/?_r=0

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