There's a related point that charlie misses: the choice to bring speaker x is also a choice not to bring speaker y, life being a zero sum. If I were a student and I saw a semi-fascist like charlie kirk invited, I would be infuriated. I wouldn't shout him down but the idea that I must stand by idly when semi-fascist scum who themselves ha…
There's a related point that charlie misses: the choice to bring speaker x is also a choice not to bring speaker y, life being a zero sum. If I were a student and I saw a semi-fascist like charlie kirk invited, I would be infuriated.
I wouldn't shout him down but the idea that I must stand by idly when semi-fascist scum who themselves have no interest in free speech are brought to campus because I have an obligation to semi-fascists is a perversion.
Fwiw, I would protest loudly outside and I would work to get the people who misspent student funds to invite such scum removed from their ability to abuse the system.
There's a related point that charlie misses: the choice to bring speaker x is also a choice not to bring speaker y, life being a zero sum. If I were a student and I saw a semi-fascist like charlie kirk invited, I would be infuriated.
I wouldn't shout him down but the idea that I must stand by idly when semi-fascist scum who themselves have no interest in free speech are brought to campus because I have an obligation to semi-fascists is a perversion.
Maybe the idea for semi-fascists is to semi-shout them down. Full-blown fascists get the full monty.
Fwiw, I would protest loudly outside and I would work to get the people who misspent student funds to invite such scum removed from their ability to abuse the system.
Indeed. The more loathsome the speakers, the more they are genuinely interested in *being* shouted down.
It's the same with school books. You can't afford them all, so....