I like to talk about "high school debate tournaments" as a negative caricature of what the "free speech" crowd thinks the world should be like But in reality those tournaments have a highly valuable feature - after the time limit is up, the debate is over
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That's the whole point The formalized artificial rules of a debate tournament are nonetheless still in the end about "silencing bad opinions" They are a ritualized simulacrum of the real-life process of waiting to see whose opinions are bad then telling them to shut the fuck up
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The obnoxious thing about these chuds on the Internet and in op-ed sections treating everything as a debate is that they want it to be an ENDLESS debate A debate that it is IMPOSSIBLE TO LOSE Unless debating is just pure masturbation for you, what the hell is the point of that
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