This Fallacy is not a justification of deplatforming. You can avoid hearing a speaker by not attending their talk.If no-one wants to hear them, they don't get invited in first place. Deplatforming is about overruling people who did want to hear them & deciding that they can't.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/983833106716266496 …
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Freedom of speech is supported by allowing people who want to talk and listen to each to do so. The fallacy comes in when someone things this means they have the right to force other people to listen to them.
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The most common reason I decline to listen to a contrary view is because it is being expressed badly, snarkily, ignorantly or dishonestly. This doesn't mean I don't want to hear contrary views. It means I will listen to people who argue well, civilly, knowledgeably and honestly.
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I actually have a notoriously low threshold for people & ideas I will engage with (see profile header) but I am still accused of avoiding contrary views often because I decline to discuss with someone making a pig's ear of it.
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