You cannot be a genuine proponent of free expression and want to ban CRT.
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The past year’s pushed me more and more towards a free speech, marketplace of ideas absolutism. I’m against banning. I’m with Hitchens full stop: "Every time you violate or propose to violate the free speech of someone else, in potentia, you’re making a rod for your own back."
Public education isn't a "marketplace of ideas"; it's a state-run monopoly with the power to compel children. In monopoly conditions, restrictions are wise, necessary, and even justified under the most libertarian philosophies.
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You have a right to advocate as you do.
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TCW citing Hitchens here is instructive, as Hitchens came out forcefully many times against "intelligent design" and "teaching the controversy" RE: Evolution. So clearly, even TCW's gold standard example would have advocated some limits on the same grounds you do
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Right. Not even to mention Hitchens's contempt for postmodernism.
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I’m sorry, Chris, but it’s not just schools. The military is also compelling this into soldiers who cannot refuse it. It’s getting into corporations who can fire people for not attending these compulsory meetings.
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Elevating people who would suppress free expression is not “supporting free expression” and no one should be compelled to participate
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There is nothing libertarian about state-run anything. Wtf.
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Disingenuous sleight-of-hand. He's maybe referring to Hayekian-type arguments for regulating *private* monopolies. "The most libertarian philosophies" are not taking a public monopoly for granted, though.
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In fact, the bans being proposed in school curricula are theoretically bans on STATE speech
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We are SUPPOSED to be limiting STATE speech. Isn't that part of what the Civil Rights movement was about?
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Under the most libertarian philosophies the state would not be running schools at all, let alone have a monopoly on education
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