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Try & ask yourself honestly, if you were a black person in academia and even mildly knowledgeable about history of racist scholarship, wouldn’t you suspect that the Oh So Concerned for free speech are just a front for the same old bigotry? And thereby be reluctant to join in?
I want the free speech movement to have more credibility, it’d suit my broader beliefs, but tbh every time I see something like this I entirely understand why they don’t.
It’s like with protesters of eugenicists: why are the ‘free speechers’ so happy when a nonviolent protester gets assaulted by some eugenics audenice member? It happened on my campus and the libertarian society was cackling about it for a week.
It’s the same thing every time: find some eugenics guy that wants to eliminate poor people or the state to drown immigrants or what have you, invite them to talk about ‘free speech’, encounter protests, then claim they’re the victim.
I feel like somewhere in there, when I wasn't paying attention, people went from thinking championing free speech meant making a show of grudgingly tolerating horrible people, to thinking championing free speech meant BEING one of the horrible people to show you could...
...to thinking championing free speech is something you achieve simply in virtue of being one of the horrible people, without the pretense that you're just making some kind of very clever of point about demanding no limits, rather than just being horrible.
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