From an article on The Spanish Flu: Some saw an enemy hand at work. Rumors spread that the Kaiser’s U-boats had released poison clouds in American ports and that German pharmaceutical company Bayer had tainted its aspirin tablets. Preachers such as Billy Sunday blamed sin ...
Over 11,000 Philadelphia residents died in October 1918, including 759 on the worst day of the outbreak. Drivers of open carts kept a near-constant vigil circling streets while hollering, “Bring out your dead!” They then deposited the collected corpses in mass graves . . .
By the time it abated in 1920, the Spanish flu had killed 675,000 Americans and left hundreds of thousands of children orphaned. Not only did more Americans die of the Spanish flu than in World War I, more died than in all the wars of the 20th century combined...
Question: Doesn’t being intolerant of intolerance make you intolerant? So should one tolerate intolerance?
Specifically I would like your thoughts about tolerance of speech - intolerant speech. Not intolerant actions. Merely hateful and intolerant speech.
So if we determine some speech cannot be tolerated, then what happens to “I disagree with what you say but defend to death your right to say it ”?—- and socially who decides what speech cannot be tolerated?
Comey memo details POTUS war with the press as Trump says jailing reporters for a few days will get us to talk. As a reporter who has been jailed for a confidential source let me say “Kiss my big fat ...” @realDonaldTrump you are wrong again.
Moreover any POTUS who says jailing reporters is acceptable is either ignorant of or cares little about our Constitution - or both. Trump remains at war with Free Speech
Further POTUS says jailed reporters will meet a special “friend” who will encourage us to talk. He is endorsing rape in order to coerce reporters to give up sources.