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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTucker Carlson: Critics Of Indiana's Anti-Gay Law Are 'Jihadis'
Fox News host and Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson said on Tuesday that critics of Indiana's divisive Religious Freedom Restoration Act are as intolerant as "jihadis."
"All the talk of tolerance that a lot of us sort of took at face value in the 90s and even in the last decade 'Why cant all of us get along; you accept me, Ill accept you' they didnt mean it at all," Carlson said during a panel discussion about the law on Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier."
"These are absolutists. These are jihadis," he said. "These are people who want to make you obey," he continued. "They dont brook any opposition to their worldview at all. They will crush you."'
Fellow panelist and conservative commentator George Will seconded Carlson, saying that gay-rights supporters have abandoned tolerance for "the old belief that whatever isnt forbidden must be mandatory."
the article + video of Carlson's rant:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tucker-carlson-indiana-gay-jihadis
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)1st Amendment Right? Or did Georgie Will and Tucker, being wealthy White men, think only they have that right?
Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)People like Tucker make America SUCK.
TerrapinFlyer
(277 posts)I always knew this guy was a racist bigot. My nickname for him has always been "Mother Tucker!"
underpants
(182,733 posts)Sorry can't post Wikipedia link from my iPhone
"Everything which is not forbidden is allowed" is a constitutional principle of English law an essential freedom of the ordinary citizen. The converse principle "everything which is not allowed is forbidden" applies to public authorities, whose actions are limited to the powers explicitly granted to them by law.[1]
The Totalitarian PrincipleEdit
Main article: Totalitarian principle
In The Once and Future King, author T. H. White proposed the opposite as the rule of totalitarianism: "Everything which is not forbidden is compulsory."[2] This quote has been suggested as a principle of physics[3] and has been used to describe totalitarian societies such as North Korea.[4]
National traditionsEdit
The jocular saying is that, in England, "everything which is not forbidden is allowed", while, in Germany, the opposite applies, so "everything which is not allowed is forbidden". This may be extended to France "everything is allowed even if it is forbidden"[5] and Russia where "everything is forbidden, even that which is expressly allowed".[6] While in North Korea it is said that "everything that is not forbidden is compulsory"[4] In Azerbaijan it is said that "Everything is allowed after giving bribe or with the support of "uncle"".
The saying about the Germans is at least partially true. In discussion amongst German scholars of German Law an argument often found is that a juristic construction is not applicable since the law doesn't state its existence even if the law doesn't explicitly state that the construction does not exist. An example for this is the Nebenbesitz (indirect possession of a right by more than one person), which is denied by German courts with the argument that §868 of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, which defines indirect possession, doesn't say there could be two people possessing.
It should be noted that, in some languages (notably Scandinavian ones), the distinction between "must not" and "don't have to" is largely left for context to indicate (for example, Norwegian uses "må ikke" for both). This is however not the case in Swedish where "must not" is written "får inte" and "don't have to" is written "måste inte". This may well have implications for how different cultures perceive (and their legal traditions handle) the distinction between them, and between their opposites "not forbidden" and "obligatory".
Trillo
(9,154 posts)yellowcanine
(35,698 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,967 posts)Hard to believe he could be any dumber.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,858 posts)is why I refer to him as Dumb Fucker Carlson.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)That was easy.
Johonny
(20,827 posts)people noticing."
In Tucker world calls for inclusiveness are intolerance, calls for legislative inequality under the law is tolerance. There's a reason he keeps getting fired.