If enough people want to hear this, I'd say host it because it needs responding to.https://twitter.com/barrydeutsch/status/809372810791391232 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Also how can you show that ideas are worthless unless you engage with them?
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Replying to @kirbmarc @HPluckrose
Engaging with ideas can be done in many ways that don't involve inviting someone to give a speech.
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Replying to @barrydeutsch @kirbmarc
But we are talking specifically abt inviting speakers. Barry, u keep jumping abt avoiding the key issue.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @kirbmarc
I don't think I am. My point is, you can disinvite a holocaust denier and STILL engage with those ideas.
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It's not an either/or choice between inviting all speakers, or refusing to ever engage with heterodox ideas.
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Who denied this? This is not the point. Talking abt when the intention *is* to discourage heterodoxy of ideas.
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