I disagree that there is no inherent value in debating bad ideas in public but even if that were true... https://twitter.com/sarahforo/status/856721702000177153 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
That's not how freedom works. Ppl don't have to prove that what they want to do has value in order to be allowed to do it.
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Society needs to prove that what someone wants to do directly harms someone else to prevent them from doing it.
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Excuse me, sir. I see no inherent value in your moustache so must ask you to remove it.
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Is the aim of universities to educate students on how to belong to certain communities? I don't think it is. Blatant collectivism.
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And the argument that whilst bigoted ideas don't hurt much on campus, they do in the wider world so ban them on campus is nuts.
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Also, they have access to all ideas online? Surely, they intend their students to be significant players in the world of ideas & politics?
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Imagine training soldiers in this way? There's enough violence in the real world & online. Don't need to be bringing it in here.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Being able to fight ideas rather than dissolve in a puddle or start shrieking & setting fire to things would be an advantage.
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