Stephen Macedo Quotes
Community ends with coercion; it doesn't begin there.
Stephen Macedo, Harvard University, The New Right v. The Constitution, Cato Institute, Washington DC, 1986
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The British Prime Minster was supporting the partition of India so there would be an independent Muslim Pakistan which India had the power to do before they granted independence, Nehru told him that this would be against the wishes of the majority Hindus of India and therefore Attlee should reconsider. But to not have a Muslim independent state would mean compelling the Muslims to be in a unified country which they opposed. So while Nehru's point was well taken, there was no way that Attlee could do anything that would not involve compulsion of at least one of the two major factions in India, and as things would turn out, both sides felt compelled and limited their cooperation with each other and the British.
There were complaints about political correctness in earlier times as well as modern.
Although English, Cobett spent time in America and published a newspaper, The Porcupine Gazette, in Philadelphia. We was very conservative and even proposed legally enslaving the lazy poor. One of the reasons that he spent time in America was that he thought that England had become hopelessy democratic but thought there might be hope for America. Cobbett and his paper represented the extreme right wing fringe of the then Federalist Party. His Porcupine Gazette had a paying readership of 3,200, the largest circulation of any American daily newspaper.
Stephen Macedo is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at Princeton University, as well as the former Director for the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.
