Subject: RE: BS: Binge Drinking reforms....UK
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jan 10 - 09:49 AM
"For a woman to consider a job or career more important than having children is, quite literally, unnatural."
"Instead of complaining that nature prevents women from having successful careers women should embrace the career nature has ascribed to them - motherhood."
London BNP organiser Nick Eriksen
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So far as I understand the point of above post, GUEST seems to think that, because something was said by someone with whose overall weltanschauung we nearly all disagree, it can't be right. This is a naive view. Even members of the BNP may occasionally be right about matters neutral to their main platforms. Or, in this instance, the fact that Lizzie might hold the same opinion on one particular issue as a BNP spokesperson doesn't, ipso facto, make her wrong about everything — nor even about that one particular view. — This is not one I happen to agree with, but it strikes me as perfectly tenable, and not to be dismissed out of hand just because someone in the BNP happens to agree with it. You will have to find a better argument than that if you intend to shoot it down, Guest.

(Slight drift - but perhaps valid as an example of what I mean — even Hitler once said something which I regard as the most perfect summation of a view with which I strongly concur, when he said that "Cigarettes are the red man's revenge on the white man for gin." The fact that I would probably not agree with a single other opinion he ever expressed doesn't invalidate my agreement with [& incidental admiration for the brilliant expression of] that particular one.)