Perhaps Stanley Fish can live with that, but no decent society can.

Double Talk about Double Standards

By Lee Harris

Writing in the New York Times, Stanley Fish reveals he is happy to live with an immoral double standard; but no decent society can.

....one begins to suspect that Fish’s two cheers for double standards is nothing but double talk. If he were really supporting double standards, then he would be logically committed to supporting double standards for everyone, not just for himself and others of the right sort, but also for those he regards as the bad guys. For Fish, it is fine to attack Limbaugh while condoning Schultz and Maher, but beyond the pale to condemn Schultz and Maher while absolving Limbaugh. Loyalty to a particular people is good, but only if the particular people are the right sort, which, in practice, almost invariably means “people who act and think like me.” In short, Fish’s two cheers are really two cheers for Fish and his friends.


http://www.american.com/archive/2012/march/double-talk-about-double-standards