Comments by "Andy Jarman" (@AndyJarman) on "The Attack on Western Values" video.

  1. The American constitution starts by declaring what rights people self evidently have. Classical English Liberals would deny there are any rights, inalienable or other. There are only constraints and guarantees of liberty as established by parliamentary debate and judicial precedent set by Common Law.
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  2. Very sad that these Conservatives fail to recognise the distinction between continental, Classical English and Neo-Liberalism. I think David Starkey would find difficulty differentiating between his values and Classical English Liberalism. The idea that Progressivism is a corrosion of society enabled by liberalism is I'll founded. There are well established Maxim's to guard against the ill effects of ideological rationalism David Starkey rails against. Carl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance is a prime example. Liberal tolerance of behaviour should not extend to the intolerant. Applied Critical Theory is a Neo Marxist ideology which has engaged the deligitimising claims of the Post Modernist movement to disqualify liberalism. The defence is available to liberals though. They simply say NO to intolerant claims and views. The idea that words are inherently violent, that women can be born with a penis, are intolerant of the need for open debate and the needs of society to protect its social structure.
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