If there's a shared resource - say, a speaking hall - everyone has a right to say how they think it should be used.
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Including petitioning the management regarding what speakers should or shouldn't be invited. That's free speech.
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So no, I see no problem with the principle. I do see problems with specific instances, but that's not the same.
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Replying to @barrydeutsch @KVeldman13
I do. If other students want to hear a speaker whose ideas I dislike, I'd just not go or go & ask critical Qs.
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Then I'm not trying to control what other ppl can hear because they have what I think are the 'wrong' ideas.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @KVeldman13
It's interesting that when a feminist writes an article about how others should speak, you say "authoritarian."
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But when you say that other people should speak in the way you prefer, that's somehow not authoritarian?
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Replying to @barrydeutsch @KVeldman13
I don't say they should speak in the way I prefer. That would be authoritarian.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @KVeldman13
No, that's exactly what your saying. You're saying that the way they want to use their speech - petitioning to (for
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example) Milo to be disinvited - is wrong, and the way you prefer they use their speech is right.
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.@barrydeutsch @KVeldman13 No, I'm not objecting to petitions.I'm arguing with the content of them when its to ban certain speakers & speech
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