http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-is-an-extremist-not-an-extremist/ The Marketplace of Ideas Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:25:31 +0300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-is-an-extremist-not-an-extremist/#comment-107910 Eli Philip Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:53:16 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=87792#comment-107910 Forgot that the role of a democracy is to cement the rule of the majority over minorities… Oh, wait.
How dare those extremists during the Civil Rights act against the majority consensus! Didn't they know that as a minority their humanity means less? Life isn't fair. Get used to it.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-is-an-extremist-not-an-extremist/#comment-107908 Robert Taylor Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:10:04 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=87792#comment-107908 This brings to mind Senator Barry Goldwater's famous line in his 1964 acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!" (And, while you are quite a bit younger than I am, Mr. Torossian, you still may recall a few highlights from President Goldwater's subsequent administration…)

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-is-an-extremist-not-an-extremist/#comment-107904 Meir Liberman Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:18:30 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=87792#comment-107904 Thank you so much for this post. I feel like I've been hearing way too much about this particular extremist group of protesters.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-is-an-extremist-not-an-extremist/#comment-107906 Meir Liberman Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:18:30 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=87792#comment-107906 Thank you so much for this post. I feel like I've been hearing way too much about this particular extremist group of protesters.

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