Including petitioning the management regarding what speakers should or shouldn't be invited. That's free speech.
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@barrydeutsch@KVeldman13 If a university decides it only wants to host set ideas, it can do that but it must expect its reputation to fall -
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@barrydeutsch at least amongst ppl who see universities as a place to explore diverse &difficult ideas intellectually as they hit society. -
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@barrydeutsch That's not always been their role, admittedly. They were for accessing only the right ideas in the right way for much longer -
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@barrydeutsch when they were controlled by Church & Scholastic method. But they came to be for new & difficult, dangerous & offensive views -
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@barrydeutsch and that is what many liberals & conservatives want to defend from the far-right & far-left. The spirit of free inquiry.
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