What Liberal Fascism? Part 1
Jonah Goldberg has caught a lot of flack over his book Liberal Facism - but this news report just shows that liberalism is very much fascist, and this is in line with Goldberg’s thesis that it really always has been, in the sense that fascism and liberalism actually advocate the same sorts of programs, and have the same underlying mentality:
Catholic student group at the University of Queensland has been censored and threatened with disaffiliation from the school’s student union because student union leaders believed the group’s “pro-woman” and “pro-pregnancy” campaign took a stand against abortion.
As part of a pregnancy support campaign, the Newman Society at the school displayed a poster and distributed leaflets that bore a photo of an eight-week old fetus in the womb.
According to The Australian, a disciplinary hearing run by the student union’s clubs and societies committee has banned the Newman Society from again displaying the material on a booth outside the student café. The society was placed on 12 months’ probation and must submit all future material to three officials, including the student union president, for approval.
Newman Society secretary Elise Nally, a third-year applied science student, said the union’s action was totalitarian and against free speech.
“I’d like to know what laws we’ve broken,” Nally said. “The union is acting like a dictator.”
Student union president Joshua Young, who is associated with the Liberal Party, described the reasons for the decision.
“I know the Newman Society thinks the union is being heavy handed, but the student union voted in 1993 for free, safe abortion on demand so all women have a genuine choice when faced with unwanted pregnancy,” he said.
A minority of the university’s 30,000 students voted in the 1993 referendum. According to The Australian, Young said the vote was about 1900 in favor of abortion rights, 1400 against, and 200 abstaining.
When asked if the vote precludes other views being advocated in campus debate, Young said “It does.”
15 years ago 6.3% of the students on campus voted in favor of government funded abortion on demand, and according to liberal Joshua Young, this settled the matter forever, because that is in line with liberal ideology, which is always good. If this isn’t fascist thinking, then I don’t know what is.
We see this here in the United States, too - in the demand that people nominated as Supreme Court justices declare themselves opposed to an overturn of Roe, which in spite of being an unconstitutional bastardization of the very concept of law, has now been mortised in time by liberals and acquired the status of holy writ, and it cannot be questioned…because it is in agreement with liberal thinking, which is always good. The problem here is not Young’s opposition to pro-life views, but his insistence that one cannot dissent from the group, which voted in favor of abortion on demand…
47 comments May 18th, 2008
