On 3/19/2017 1:55 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> I kinda agree.  Cultural appropriation is something to be aware of, but
> the 'melting pot' that is the US means that we blend stuff together - and
> as Bill Maher pointed out a few weeks ago, we need to stop apologizing on
> the left for 'stupid shit'.  I don't always agree with Maher, and he gets
> a lot of things wrong (such as his stance on the first amendment - it's
> colored by being pushed off the air with "Politically Incorrect" after
> people boycotted advertisers - he doesn't understand that the boycott
> *was* a first amendment expression relating to freedom of association.
> The first amendment doesn't give him the right to an audience or the
> right to a TV show - or the right to social consequences for saying
> things people don't like), but I do like that he says what he wants to
> say, and doesn't care what people think.  Sometimes he's a schmuck when
> he does that.  A lot of times he's not.
>

I think you're confusing "right" with "entitlement". He certainly has a 
_right_ to an audience, TV show, etc. etc. But he's not _entitled_ to 
have one.


Mike

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