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> Excluding people based on their beliefs is completely a judgement call about whether you think their beliefs are so far from your own that nothing productive
by altoz 10y ago
> Excluding people based on their beliefs is completely a judgement call about whether you think their beliefs are so far from your own that nothing productive can come from sharing a department with them.
Would the author of this comment be willing to say the same thing if the shoe were on the other foot? Say, a high school refusing to hire someone based on their liberal beliefs (say, transgender people being able to use the bathroom they identify as)? After all, it's very possible for the school to say "nothing productive can come from sharing a department with them".
- travmatt 10y agoTo the author of that comment your idea is nonsensical - if they are incontrovertibly correct, than any other viewpoint isn't and as such is not only wrong but malevolently so. This isn't about an exchange of ideas, it's identity politics. At most, this would necessitate the wielding of righteous indignation to 'correct' the mistaken impressions of misinformed person.
- savanaly 10y ago'Say, a high school refusing to hire someone based on their liberal beliefs (say, transgender people being able to use the bathroom they identify as)? After all, it's very possible for the school to say "nothing productive can come from sharing a department with them".' Yes, the school could say that, but they might not be right (a case of a valid but unsound argument). In any case I view that hypothetical (barring a teacher based on what they think about transgender bathroom priveleges) as preferable to, say, barring a teacher based on something they had no say on such as their skin color (although, as I must continue to point out-- that doesn't mean it's not also preferable to not discriminate at all!)