I need to write a thing on what I think is the right way to protest. Ways that are effective but not intimidating or authoritarian.
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If free speech was his whole aim, he cld not reasonably object. If he found it distressing, he'd have learnt what they wanted him to learn.
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Instead, they made him a martyr and increased antagonism against trans people. (This is hypothetical. I agree with Peterson on free speech)
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Yes. I support the idea of alternative forms & pushing for those. I was being pessimistic and claiming it seems to be in our nature to
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I think it is but it doesn't happen to the same extent everywhere. Culture legitimises it or inhibits it. The liberal humanists must win.
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No. His principles stand for not trying to impose your "feelings" on someone else, especially when they depart from objective reality.
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You think his argument wasn't for free speech but 'I get to call you what I want but you don't coz I'm right'?
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Government should not compel speech. Thinking people can find rude and untruthful speech unpleasant or wrong. Absolutely no contradiction.
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Agreed. Did I suggest there was? They just have to deal with it tho. Whether its Peterson's speech thought unpleasant & wrong or students;
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He doesn't have to call people by the gender they want but people don't have to call him by the gender he wants either.
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And the issue isn't who is factually right here. Ppl have the right to be wrong. The issue is the freedom to express views.
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As far as I know, Peterson believes himself to be an immortal made in the image of a God. To me that is clearly crazy & factually wrong.
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But he still has the right to thinks its true of him & me and say it of himself & me. And I have the right not to accept his self-definition
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