On respect, and whether Errol Naidoo is a fool
When someone presents themselves to you as having near-universally foolish views, are we entitled to call that person a fool? Or does “respect” always entail only addressing their arguments, while refraining from applying such labels to them? Errol Naidoo’s call for a boycott on e-TV recently led to a brief debate on this issue.
To ask for evidence is not (necessarily) scientism
Of course there are many things that we don’t know. But that doesn’t afford us the liberty to make the answers up, or to depend for answers on people who have made them up in the past.
Giving Jacob Zuma the finger
In a disastrous PR week for Jacob Zuma, his commitment to free speech has been called into question by the actions of his security detail, who allegedly abused a UCT student for showing disrespect.
