Will the old continent wake up and realize that while it was sleeping, it had transformed from the “Sleeping Beauty” into the world’s recycling bin?
How Europe Went from “Sleeping Beauty” to a Moral Dump with Heated Floors
How Europe Went from “Sleeping Beauty” to a Moral Dump with Heated Floors
Americans are now discovering what we in Israel learned a long time ago: tolerance is great – until someone takes advantage of it to take control of you.
The culture of negating the other is a symptom of a deeper crisis: a loss of faith in dialogue and in our ability to deal with different opinions. It reflects a left that has lost its way, that has forgotten the values of freedom and openness that it once championed.
From a right-wing perspective, the solution is not a counter-boycott or silencing of the left, but a return to open discourse, in which opinions are examined on the basis of arguments, not mass outrage.