Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

100% agree.

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.

You have a right to advocate as you do.

Sure, but I *do not* have a right to compel public schoolchildren to believe what I believe.

Confronting efforts to indoctrinate via public school curriculum is great. In fact, there are laws on the books to address this. If the feds incentivize indoctrination, this is a legit problem too. The fix* may well be political. But agitation for any new *bans* is a line.

It's a red line why? What is your actual argument?

I'm a libertarian. Redundant laws make me queazy. State restrictions on speech make me queazy (especially where political and/or religious speech is involved). Public education tends to make me queazy too. Almost tangentially related; I'm prone to motion sickness too.