On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Wesley McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyway, Chuck Woolery has an important message to the blacks and the > gays which he relayed to Michele Bachmann at CPAC, the obvious > spokesperson and venue of choice to get the message out: > > "Majority rules. We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil > rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need > them. They have inalienable rights granted by God in the Constitution.
In political philosophy there's a concept called the tyranny of the majority. I believe it comes from John Stuart Mill. It states that in a democracy, while the majority rules, the system has to protect the rights of the minority. Otherwise it will cease to be a democracy. > This outburst of Woolery reminded me of an article written two years > ago at The Daily Beast, which wondered why game-show hosts were > conservative. I have not read the Daily Beast article. In his book Next Man Up about the NFL, John Feinstein wrote that most NFL players vote Republican. That's more surprising than game show hosts as a fair number of players come from disadvantaged backgrounds. What the two groups have in common is that they make a lot of money and are probably most concerned about paying as little tax as possible. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
