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Don't you think one of those duties is hosting a range of speakers of differing views and backgrounds to let their students make up their own minds?

• pyrale 10y ago
  You mean, like exposing biology students to creationism ? No, I don't believe so. When an idea has been widely discredited, there's no reason a place dedicated to knowledge should be required to host it. I can agree with the fact that an individual should not be persecuted for harbouring views. Ideas such as nazism, however, have no place in our society outside of the historian circles, and no one should be required to assist anyone in disseminating them.
  • cyberpunk 10y ago
    I agree, but alt-right politicans and editors of dubious newspapers aren't nazis and this is happening to them... It's a 1000 cuts thing. Yesterday the nazis, today a breitbart editor, tomorrow?
    • WaxProlix 10y ago
      You could look at it from the other direction. Once you agree that outright fascism is not to be given a platform, fascism lite (and I think there's some evidence that 'alt-right' is a sort of rebranding of modern white supremacists, white nationalists, and neo Nazi types) should maybe also not be given a platform. Death by a thousand cuts. Today, calls to institutionalize trans people, undo the civil rights act, or put gays through electroshock therapy. Tomorrow, expulsion of the Jews?
    • pyrale 10y ago
      Would you agree that there is a duty for alt-right talk shows and media to host liberal talks and to let people promote leftist ideas ? If not, why should there be a duty for universities to set up alt-right talks ?