Freedom of speech is a pretty good measure of how free a country is. How liberal it is, so to speak.
Bob Dylan was always primarily a musician. But he did sing songs protesting the Viet Nam War back in the 1960's, and became a highly visible icon of the Left. Yet the US government never made the slightest attempt to infringe on his right to sing whatever he pleased.
Dylan gave a concert in Viet Nam this past weekend. The Vietnamese government -- the same government which defeated the US back in 1975 -- demanded the right to determine which songs Dylan would be allowed to sing. Dylan acquiesced.
The Viet Nam War was a tremendous waste of US lives and money, and frankly, we had no business being there.
Nonetheless, for Dylan to quietly agree to the censorship of a government he once supported seems a bit of a double standard.
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It's funny how lefties - who wail about misogyny when we point out that women & men have innate psychological differences - don't give a damn about the abuse of women in Muslim countries. "It's just their culture", they cry. As far as I can tell, people on the right are more consistent in their opposition to human rights abuses. The left only oppose oppression or censorship when it happens to them, and actively support it when it happens under another culture or to people they don't like.
- Gethin
Gethin --
You are exactly right, the hypocrisy stinks. Especially on the part of the feminists.
And thank you once again for reading this far back in the archives.
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