Instead, the Senate affirmed, for now, that these odious ideas remain on the table.
… In Irving's case, we are no longer talking about some theoretical slipppery [sic] slope, but physically robbing someone of their liberty purely for thinking odious ideas and making odious statements.
In fact, you know little about him except that at some point in his life he got a tattoo expressing odious ideas; you have no idea what he thinks now or what bad behavior, if any, he has ever engaged in.
These measures would function as a warning label, like a skull-and-crossbones on a bottle of poison, to prevent the careless spread of his most odious ideas, which Mr. Faye lists as the exaltation of the state over the individual, the impossibility of morality, anti-humanism and racial purity.
Even if such odious ideas are scaled down for political expediency or beaten back by the courts, their remnants can be damaging to any attempt at unity.
Claude Guéant, the interior minister, described as "odious" the idea that such contacts constituted anything other than communication of the facts.
My friends on the left miss the point and the social impact of any kind of censorship imposed on mavericks and offensive speakers -- especially when the pressure groups seek to punish the speaker for simply publishing his odious, ignorant ideas in a book -- which their boisterous protests call more attention to than if they had just let it go.
This was in the teeth of librettist Von Hofmannsthal's resistance, who thought the idea "odious".
They may be able to rally public support for some of their ideas which are particularly odious to Democrats (check out how high on that list cutting EPA funding is, for example), but the Republicans are also likely to push hard for some ideas which the public is already firmly against -- to their political peril (like cutting education funding, for example).
The idea of an agreed settlement will seem odious to some.
