Free speech is a double-edged sword. Sure you can say what you like, but that comes with repercussions for what you say. The best way to combat hate speech is to allow people to use it and let them face the social ramifications.
2017: 'Hate speech isn't free speech' 2818: 'Any defense of free speech is hate speech'https://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1071515910593228802 …
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If you believe there should be 'social ramifications' for everything people say that you disagree with, then you don't believe in free speech as a cultural value. You've outed yourself as a censorious fascist.
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Any denunciation of free speech is an exercise of free speech and an utter lack of self-awareness.
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I was thinking as I read the attached that they were exercising what they condemn. Very odd.
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If we could just get a few more people to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyoOfRog1EM …
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Don't they get that it is free speech that allows them to give hate speech its name?
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'All speech is hate speech' is the only way this ends. Need signed contract for speech consent.
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"dominated by conservative and white faculty" -find me a college campus dominated by conservative faculty, I dare you. are these kids students eager to learn? or paying to play a game? if the former - fail, if the latter - what a waste of time and attention
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Anyone to the right of Marx is "Conservative" by their standards, I'm sure.
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Absolutely. If a persons words have changed how you feel about yourself or feel in the moment THATS YOUR FAULT we need to take responsibility for how we feel in the moment and about ourselves.
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