Franks is assuming that you are too stupid to see what she is doing. Summing up her proposal, she contends that Americans should abandon their traditional constitutional setup and “situate individual rights within the framework of ‘domestic tranquility’ and the ‘general welfare.’” This is a fancy way of saying that the natural rights Americans currently enjoy wouldn’t actually be legal rights anymore.
Next time, Franks could just say that—and spare us all the merry dance.
Charles C. Cooke
March 10, 2022
No, Professor, We Shouldn’t Cut Up Our Rights
[Franks, of course, is not going to take Cooke’s advice. She is smart enough to know that deception is required for her plan to succeed.
Last December, I had my thoughts on Franks’ suggestions for the First and Second Amendments. I prefer my approach to Cooke’s suggestion. It’s more direct, let’s her know her deception failed, and makes it clear we not going to acquiesce::
No. Your move Ms. Franks.
Prepare appropriately to back up those words.—Joe]
Ms. Frank is what passes for a scholar these days?
God help us.
I can’t believe Bloomberg ain’t asking for a rebate.
In the same way that this passes for a winning debate team.
WOW!
I couldn’t watch anywhere near all of that. Maybe 20 seconds of the actual debate and I had to escape.
From what I have been told, that kind of horseshit is a standard thing in ‘modern’ U.S college debate. From what I’ve seen in England, with Oxford Union debates, they wouldn’t have been let in even though the back door.
Sad about our education system.
Aaaaah ya. I’m starting to understand the reasons for setting up Liberia, repatriations.
And why my northern cousins would want to shoot my southern cousins in 1860’s.
Well I have often commented over the last three years that the world has turned upside down.
This is proof that we are now living in a dystopia of our own making. It is a tangle of mores and laws from which there is no escape.
“” Franks argued that Americans should seek to “edit” the “deeply flawed” First and Second Amendments so that they are less “aggressively individualistic.” ”
There it is.
Yup, card carrying stashed Commie.
Zero human value.
From what I have been told, that kind of horseshit is a standard thing in ‘modern’ U.S college debate. From what I’ve seen in England, with Oxford Union debates, they wouldn’t have been let in even though the back door.
Sad about our education system.
James Lindsay has the deepest understanding of what is going on right now regarding the need to undermine things like logic, reason, etc.
If you aren’t listening to his podcast, you are absolutely missing out on what is happening to the world.
https://newdiscourses.com/tag/nd-podcast/