alright, a few minutes available now. You asked if Peterson ought to be considered exclusionary and pointed to his opposition to bill C-16 as evidence of that. I think that's worth addressing.
Do I find it reasonable that people who have not had my blessings and have lived with less safety than I have would favor legislating for safety? Yes I find that reasonable. Do I find it reasonable to consider offensive speech as a legitimate threat to safety? Almost never.
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I disagree with Peterson on a lot of stuff but I strongly agree with him on considering it an unreasonable infringement on freedom to start declaring various mundane speech acts criminal because they might hurt someone's feelings.
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Note that this is VERY different than, for example, legislation regulating FORMAL (i.e. not mundane) speech acts, such as the language used in government documentation that has legal weight to it.
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I could say a lot more and maybe one day I'll blog about it or something but for now that's where I'll leave it. Last thing to note is just that smear campaigns work by draining nuance out of the discussion and they succeeded here. I'm trying to bring some nuance back.
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