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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a perfectly reasonable view. It's not about suppressing Milo's "ideas" - there are a million other venues he can
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and does speak in. It's about having standards as a community. And calling for such standards is itself free speech.
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Yes, you can choose whether standards are upholding diversity of ideas or protecting orthodox ones.
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So when Milo comes to show photos of trans students and mock them, that's "diversity of ideas"?
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@barrydeutsch I'm sure you don't really need me to explain the difference between people & ideas to you but I have preprepared tweets! 1/21 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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