And I say yes. Let them air these ideas in a place where academics & intellectuals can pick them apart not just supportive echo chambers
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Can I suggest to you some ideas are actually dangerous & it might be a good idea to counter them? You seem not to realise this?
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cliche, but old point to make: who decides that an idea is threatening when no explicit call for violence/erasure has been made?
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LOts of ideas are threatening. The idea that vaccines cause autism for example.
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Yes, people do this, It's still words. You can counter them with words or you can hide from them.
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more to point, not all such speakers do but r disrupted anyway. The bar for 'threat' has considerable indiv spread, inc among margin groups
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If you're going to pretend I don't think bad ideas are a problem rather than that I think countering them the way to counter them, no point
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The worst ideas are the most important to counter.
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