Ah! Perhaps this is it.Sometimes people think of freedom of speech as the law of their particular country but this is different to the principle,Laws around this only apply to government. I am speaking of individual commitments to advocating & promoting the free exchange of ideashttps://twitter.com/notCursedE/status/971307025773793280 …
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The walking out is fine but the damage to the sound system was an attempt to ensure that 400 people who had come to hear us could not do so. That was in opposition to the free exchange of ideas & diversity of ideas which underlies liberal society.
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I value your opinion and the courage you had to go up there! I could not disagree more with their methods or even reasons! But there is some really tricky nuance here that needs to be debated, not by me, (and then protested
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I think we're doing that. It is contrary to the principle of supporting the free exchange of diverse ideas to try to prevent someone from speaking or others from hearing her. It is cowardly & bullying when you could step up & show the problem with the speech.
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But that's not the case for many people who are majority laymen and which goes back to my original point. Human interaction is not logical robots and never has been in the history of society. Ideas, historically, are bad, implemented, then modified.
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I guess maybe I'll just have to rethink the position. In my mind, when a prevalent idea is established across many actors and platforms, I see no reason why interrupting an event constitutes infringement of free speech. Especially considering the history of effective protests.
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Using ones freedom of speech via protest to deny another’s is the epitome of hypocrisy. Express dissent, hold events that voice opposing opinions, attend and ask challenging questions. The heckler’s veto was the bane of the civil rights movement, we don’t want to go there.
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I'm not defending rioting, but riots and the like have directly led to intervention in a positive manner throughout the history of the US. Haymaker riots was a huge turning point. I don't ever want it to get to that point but i'm not doing to deny effectiveness.
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My point would still stand because the effectiveness is predicated on the situation. A violent protest might have less rate of success but be more successful in certain situations.https://twitter.com/yarrowdunham/status/971024859483525122 …
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