Emil O W Kirkegaard

@sapinker not sure the % of students who actually want to shut down controversial speakers. May be a core of activists. #ISIR2017

@sapinker wants people to ensure that free speech doesn't become a right-wing issue. "That would be terrible." #ISIR2017

@sapinker: "Free speech is a pre-requisite to doing anything else because no one is infallible." You may be wrong. #ISIR2017

@sapinker says free speech was important in advancing rights for minorities. #ISIR2017

@sapinker: "I call myself a feminist. Men & women are not indistinguishable. But that has nothing to do with political rights." #ISIR2017

@sapinker discussing many improved measures of human progress says that sexism is down (though not irradicated). #ISIR2017

@sapinker: "It's ironic that progressives are the ones most adamant that progress doesn't exist. I disagree with that." #ISIR2017.

@sapinker: "The historical data show that we have made things better [for people] and that we can change things in the future." #ISIR2017