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Free speech is a Western value. Tying to impose it on the rest of the world is yet another colonization. True diversity is allowing other cultures to live by
by 21 8y ago
Free speech is a Western value.
Tying to impose it on the rest of the world is yet another colonization.
True diversity is allowing other cultures to live by different values.
- adamc 8y agoThe diversity of allowing theocracies isn't one I am particularly interested in supporting.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoSo, true diversity in your opinion requires that we allow some king to torture and kill people who are too diverse?
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoWhatever "true diversity" is it's not worth having unless _people_ can choose their own values to some extent, IMO. Fascist cultures should not be tolerated, fascist people should (inasmuch as their fascism does not impact others against those other's own wills, of course). Demanding SA allow freedom for individuals to exercise their own conscience would be supporting a morally defensible notion of diversity. One major problem is that some religions (eg Islam) and religious groups (eg Mormons) have central ideologies that are antithetical to freedom of conscience; making them incompatible with many freedoms associated with democratic societies (speech, thought, association).
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoIn much of MENA, female genital mutilation is a cultural norm. Are you saying that “true diversity” is allowing small girls to have their clitorises cut off?
- tangent128 8y agoThat's just another way of saying "you should tolerate intolerance", and the fallacy is the same. Saudi Arabia and China are not cultural monoliths. Their ruling classes may have a cultural value of stamping out dissenting values, but their subcultures so targeted would certainly disagree.