Hentoff on Horowitz

[Justin Schwartz]

Yoshie, it should be obvious that just because someone has a bad position on 
X doesn't mean he's wrong about Y. Hitchens is anti-abortion as a moral 
matter (though he has said he is pro-choice as a legal one), a position 
that,a s I have argued with you before, is intellectually respectable if 
politically problematic, but Hitch is very good on lots of stuff. Marx 
himself said (in a family communication) that his favorite virtue in women 
was submissiveness. Hentiff is cranky about lots of things, but I like his 
First Amendment absolutism. Not that the Horowitz debate implicates the 
1A.--jks


>
>>This one's for Carrol, Charles and Yoshie. With love.
>>
>>DP
>>
>>>  Check out this article at
>>http://villagevoice.com/issues/0116/hentoff.shtml
>>>  Nat Hentoff
>>>  Ruffian Fake Radicals
>>>  by Nat Hentoff
>>>  'It Was Hitler Who Outlawed Free Speech'
>
>Nat Hentoff?  A man opposed to women's right to abortion -- an
>essential part of reproductive freedoms -- like Hentoff doesn't have
>much to say to me about freedom of any kind.  Women who die from
>unsafe & illegal abortions or unsafe childbirths from unwanted
>pregnancies don't have any voice, much less freedom of speech.
>
>Yoshie

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