Scientific racism, e.g., isn’t taboo in the sense of being a set of ideas people are afraid to discuss. There are shelves of books on the topic and more all the time. The issue for the Q set is that not enough people take it seriously as a way *they* should think about the world.
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Changing *that* isn’t making ideas accessible. It’s advocacy.
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Of course you are free to publish, e.g., scientific racism if that is important to you. Just don’t be shocked when that’s recognized as advocacy. You’re not free to force universities to endorse it or supply its adherents an audience. As for teaching about it, they already do.
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*When referring to this advocacy I put “free speech” and “free thought” in quotations. This reflects the fact that these phrases are being used as slogans here, and distinguishes that use of them from the principles they name.
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Hey, look! Free thought lives!
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For Quillette, “speech is free” is true in the same sense as “talk is cheap.”
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The analogy I use is no one thinks it’s censorship that medical schools don’t invite Jenny McCarthy to lecture there. Seriously, using their stupid paradigm of what free speech is, they should see Andrew Wakefield as a victim of oppression. They don’t though.
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