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Why should student A who sees the negative of a speaker have the power of veto over student B who sees the positive of the speaker? What happens when student B
by talmand 10y ago
Why should student A who sees the negative of a speaker have the power of veto over student B who sees the positive of the speaker? What happens when student B complains about a speaker that student A wants to hear? Do we just ban everybody or allow a diversity of opinions?
For that matter, if the speaker is invited by a student organization that the complaining student is not a member of, why should that student complain? Just don't go.
- jonlucc 10y agoWhy not allow both? The group can have their speaker within whatever guidelines the school has (some schools ban foul language or other school-wide policies), and the other group is allowed to protest. Just like the real world where another company can do what it wants within the law, but I can also protest what and how they do it.
- teacup50 10y agoProtesting the speaker's ideas is always fine. Protesting the speaker's existence is difficult to intellectually justify as a healthy exchange of ideas, including critique. These days, what we see is a lot of the latter -- up to and including attempting to prevent attendance of the event -- and very little of the former.
- talmand 10y agoI've seen cases on college campuses of obvious criminal activity, although usually minor, that is excused because they happen during a protest.