But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff thatโs over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isnโt free at all. So screw that.
Mark SteynFor all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.
Mark SteynHollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.
Mark SteynWe're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of improvement. The multiculturalists are just as racist. The only difference is that they think the wogs can never reform: Good heavens, you can't expect a Muslim in Norway not to go about raping the womenfolk! Much better just to get used to it.
Mark Steyn