But when you say that other people should speak in the way you prefer, that's somehow not authoritarian?
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If a student group wants to use college facilities to bring in Milo, so he can show the group a slideshow of pics of
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local trans students, to make fun of their appearance and speculate on if he'd have sex with them... you may prefer
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to "engage" with that so-called "idea," but the view that "this isn't an appropriate speaker for this community" is
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Whether or not a speaker is appropriate 4 a university best gauged by how many ppl want to listen to,argue w/ him.
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If its enough to fill the venue, this is an idea that students want to engage with & that's what unis are for.
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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 fall1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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.1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
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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 longer1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@barrydeutsch when they were controlled by Church & Scholastic method. But they came to be for new & difficult, dangerous & offensive views1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
.@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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