@emptywheel An audience full of people boo-ing you is not the same thing as an attempt to suppress speech, right?
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Replying to @tqbf
@tqbf@emptywheel Well, sure it is if you're preventing the people who want to hear him from hearing him.3 replies 1 retweet 0 likes -
Replying to @normative
@normative If someone between age of 12 and 70 in this country can't find a way to access Trump's ideas I'd really like to meet them.@tqbf1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel@tqbf This is a gross rationalization and beneath you.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @normative
@normative Trump went directly from choosing to cancel his talk to TV. Really hard to say he was silenced.@tqbf3 replies 1 retweet 6 likes -
Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel@tqbf Absolutely in this case. He silenced himself. But in general, shouting down speakers so they can't be heard is ugly.4 replies 2 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @normative
@normative Ugly. Normatively frowned on. For those who have no other way of being heard, also an important part of free speech.@tqbf3 replies 1 retweet 6 likes -
Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel@tqbf What otherwise unheard message is expressed by shouting someone down? "We think Trump is racist?"3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @normative
@normative@tqbf That people of color will not be silenced by bigotry? Will not be cowed?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel@tqbf If that "message" can only be expressed by shouting someone else down it doesn't deserve to be heard.5 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@normative Are you making a normative comment? Do you then also buy off on all of Trump's norms? @tqbf
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