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" But it would be about tolerating dissent. Now, movies or plays, pieces of art about dissent, they always, I think, flatter the author and they flatter the audience.   WOODS: Yeah.   KAUFFMAN: Because, of course, all right-thinking people are on the side of the dissenter.   WOODS: Right.   KAUFFMAN: You know, who is being persecuted by the narrow-minded peasants, or the clerics who deny that the Earth is round, or that it orbits the sun, or that there’s such a thing as evolution, and it’s just such a cheap and easy pose to stand at this distance of time with Galileo, or –   WOODS: I know, right! "

Thomas E. Woods Jr. , Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion


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Thomas E. Woods Jr. quote : But it would be about tolerating dissent. Now, movies or plays, pieces of art about dissent, they always, I think, flatter the author and they flatter the audience.   WOODS: Yeah.   KAUFFMAN: Because, of course, all right-thinking people are on the side of the dissenter.   WOODS: Right.   KAUFFMAN: You know, who is being persecuted by the narrow-minded peasants, or the clerics who deny that the Earth is round, or that it orbits the sun, or that there’s such a thing as evolution, and it’s just such a cheap and easy pose to stand at this distance of time with Galileo, or –   WOODS: I know, right!