Are Western societies too tolerant of intolerance? | Sam Bowman argues YES in City AM

Deputy Director of the ASI, Sam Bowman, argued in City AM that in the wake of the recent Paris attacks, Western societies should do more to stand up to terrorism:

Western civilisation is built on the principle of adversarial debate, and the more political correctness stops us from mocking the unmockable and saying the unsayable, the less strong that civilisation will become.

Like bullies, terrorists can only win when they can frighten people into submission.

Read the full article here.

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