Here's a piece from @ortoiseortoise that I agree with and disagree with, but not in the same sense at the same time! Like all good millennials I shall resolve this apparent contradiction through a series of tweets and clear up all confusion.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Don-t-Be-Fooled-There-Is-a/243206/?key=vSQp-3cf-De7HoC41GBsvjqj4UkhivZm9f7-Mj4GzHhFO9uShkl2QoQ32SgIlFfERnloTlVsUHBmZm54TE51Z094TkRPQURmVmR3SDlYcUZhN2h2WXU2U2M2MA#.Wt8sAocfEdM.twitter …
My disagreements: I think lots of current free speech problems come from people classifying dissenting speech as outside bounds of protected speech (I think this is part of what Stanley and Manne were getting at), and "free speech crisis" rhetoric often exacerbates this problem.
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can you say more? i can't unpack this yet
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I’ve seen times when folk treat as chilling what amounts to the kinda behaviour one should expect in a society with free speech and hotly contentious issues open to discussion. If they treat it as a threat to rather than instance of free speech they end up opposed to that state.
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