When did the mainstream media and the po... by Russell Blackford | We Heart Quotes

When did the mainstream media and the political culture get taken over by some nineteenth-century Methodist Temperance Union? The puritanism has reached ridiculous proportions of late, and from the political Left almost as much as the Right.

- Russell Blackford

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Today, we each need to guard against various large and small Outrage Machines of the political Left. Otherwise, we can be shunned, harassed, dogpiled, smeared, publicly shamed, devastatingly labelled, falsely accused of wrongdoing, or otherwise hurt and harmed for trivial, dubious, or non-existent transgressions. Our good reputations can be destroyed, our jobs can be threatened or ended, and our careers can be ruined.

- Russell Blackford

A problem with trusting the mainstream media these days is the immense decline in journalistic standards and editorial support introduced for cost-cutting reasons.

- Russell Blackford

Religion is inherently controversial. It's quite okay to satirize religious teachings or practices, to criticize them harshly, to try to get people to abandon them, etc. There's no need to be 'moderate' about this.

- Russell Blackford

Science is implausible to untutored human common sense, but that in no way casts doubt on the correctness of well-established scientific findings. Feelings of transcendence are simply that — feelings — and, as such, have no capacity to reveal truths about a world external to the people who have them.

- Russell Blackford

If the news media want to be trusted they need to report the facts objectively and accurately, not tell us what to think about an event without telling us exactly what the event was.

- Russell Blackford

Every time someone claims that using certain language is 'not ok' it just makes me want to go out and use exactly that language. Surely they must realise that that is how people respond psychologically and how counterproductive they are being. No one wants to be told what they can say.

- Russell Blackford

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