“This is surrender, not principle.”
@GSpellchecker on how closing your eyes doesn’t make the problem disappear.https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/ …
Because we know what kind of ideas rule in a system where we are not free to express and debate ideas (authoritarian ones).
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I dont believe for 1 sec that having a system in which we are truly free to express and debate ideas would prevent authoritarian ideas
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The goal is not to prevent ideas but to prevent the prevention of ideas.
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Fair enough, but that's a different issue imo
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Having complete freedom to express ideas is not going to be enough in itself to defeat authoritarianism.
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No argument there. Necessary but not sufficient.
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Yeah. That much I agree with :-)
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