It's not "silencing" or "censorship" to call someone a racist, and it's a jerk move to claim that it is. Here's why: http://studentactivism.net/2015/02/25/on-censorship-campus-free-speech-and-silencing/ …
@studentactivism i have a quibble with this: outside of anarchist circles, isn't characterizing speech as violent perforce an argument that…
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@studentactivism …that speech should be prevented by whatever means required, including force? which wouldn't make calling it violent an… -
@studentactivism …act of censorship in itself, but would sure seem to make it a call for censorship. -
@chaosprime Absolutely. I would (just about) never call a speech act violent, and I repudiate those who do. -
@studentactivism okay, cool. there's a bit in there where you seem to be supporting that as non-censorious, so that's maybe unclear. -
@chaosprime I think it's legitimate speech. But also immoral, wrong, crappy speech.
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