Tanya Cohen Resurfaces With Her Special Brand Of "Human Rights" Crazy
Yes, our lady in Stalinism dressed up as benevolence is back! Once again at Thought Catalog with her special selection of "Tape your mouth shut or we'll throw you in prison for 25 years":
Human rights activists - including the United Nations and human rights groups all over the world - not only believe that hate speech should be outlawed, but that so should cultural appropriation and other forms of speech which violate basic human rights (in the case of cultural appropriation, the right of cultures to retain ownership of their culture and to ensure that their culture is not misused).
Let's take a look at that. My friend Richard, who is in the music biz and really knows music, told me that American music is special -- it comes out of "the Jews and the blues." ("The Jews" are people like Gershwin, Lerner and Loew, etc.)
Under Tanya's edict, of course, we'd all be sitting in silence, because "cultures" ... "retain ownership" of their culture, blah blah blah. Or as somebody being a little stuffy once lectured us in Paris when we were about to taste each other's appetizers, "En France, we do not meex ze meat and ze fish."
More from our leftist genius:
Those who oppose human rights legislation fail to consider the serious harm that can be caused by hate speech. This is John Stuart Mill's classical liberal "harm principle", which establishes that conduct can be outlawed when it causes a great deal of harm to others.
The harm that is greatest is in countries where people are made to shut up or go to jail.
As I mentioned before, only if ugly ideas are allowed out of people's computers and pieholes can we see them and hear them and challenge them.
For a little sense at Thought Catalog, thankfully, there's Joshua Goldberg, who notes that "'human rights' is a sham":
Nearly every single attempt to limit freedom of speech in modern times has been championed under the guise of "human rights." ... And yes, "human rights" activists have even proposed state surveillance and "tolerance camps" for people found guilty of thought crimes. The authoritarianism of the "human rights" lobby is made even more disturbing when one considers that "human rights" activists consistently invent new "rights", which include everything from the "right" to free Internet access to the very dangerous "right to be forgotten."...Whereas natural rights stood for freedom from government interference in people's lives, "human rights" stands for government control of every single aspect of people's lives. Not only that, however, but "human rights" activists have also been some of the loudest champions for war in our time. "Human rights activists" were among the most outspoken proponents of waging war on Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - a war which has had devastating effects not only for Libya, but also for Mali.
...On top of that, "human rights" activists are the driving force behind "international law" and other forms of imperialism which aim to erode the national sovereignty of countries and subject them to the "civilizing" influence of Western "human rights" activists ("human rights" can very much be seen as the new "white man's burden"). "Human rights" activists are far more dangerous than traditional authoritarians and warmongers because they wrap themselves up in a cloak of benevolence and do-goodery. After all, who is going to come out against "human rights"? Anyone who did so would be instantly labeled as an evil fascist dictator (despite the self-proclaimed "human rights activists" actually being far closer to such a thing).
...Do not be fooled by the insidious trickery of the "human rights" lobby. These people do not want to defend your rights, but to take them away and turn them into commodities to be given out by a "gracious" Big Brother government whenever convenient. They are not only tyrants, but the most dangerous form of tyrants: tyrants who sincerely believe that they should rule over others for the good of the people that they're ruling over. Like the disgusting and wretched parasites who run the bloodsucking UN, "human rights activists" are little more than dictators imbued with an extreme sense of egoism and self-righteousness. These people are a menace to freedom and civil liberties and should be treated as exactly what they are: ruthless autocrats dressed up as kindly humanitarians. "Human rights" is the new totalitarianism.
via @TimCushing
That sounds like yet another version of this:
They are going to force us to be "good" by eliminating "Hate Speech", but no on asks, by what measure is "good" defined, and what happens to those who disagree with the definition of "good".
-- Steve
Steve at January 9, 2015 6:01 AM
"we'd all be sitting in silence, because 'cultures' ... 'retain ownership' of their culture,..."
Of course, the irony is that these same people aren't big on property rights in general, and they usually regard copyrights and patents as forms of theft. I guess some forms of intellectual property are created more equal than others."
Cousin Dave at January 9, 2015 9:09 AM
The "hate speech" the U.N. ( and some on the left in this country ) want to silence is speech critical of Islam. That means anything said critical of Islam could send the speaker to jail. Meanwhile, radical Islamists can kill us and we have to suck it up.
But hate speech is o.k. if critical of Christians, Jews, whites, and men.
Nick at January 9, 2015 9:27 AM
I don't believe Tanya Cohen is a real person or that he articles are honest expressions of the author's beliefs (whoever that author really is).
Martin Mix at January 9, 2015 9:31 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2015/01/09/tanya_cohen_res.html#comment-5756138">comment from Martin MixSomebody (maybe Adam Kissel?) found her on Reddit, I think.
Amy Alkon
at January 9, 2015 9:59 AM
Steve gives us a good C. S. Lewis quote. But the rest of that block is worth looking at:
I welcome our new overlords, same as the old overlords.
I R A Darth Aggie at January 9, 2015 2:17 PM
Goldberg mentioned the reddit link elsewhere. That's why if anyone is pretending to be Tanya, it might be him ... I think she might be the same Tanya Cohen from South Africa with a law degree who has been involved in somewhat similar work in the past.
Adam K at January 10, 2015 2:22 PM
You'll notice that nowhere in her list of 'rights' is the simple and basic right to be left the hell alone.
Because if they leave you alone you might indulge in Bad Think, and they can't allow that, now can they?
Firehand at January 15, 2015 9:34 AM
She is so sexy.
Ana L. Lewis at April 18, 2015 5:31 AM
I don't think so: "They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
Link: http://www.m88in.net/daftar-m88/
m88 asia at April 18, 2015 5:32 AM
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