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This is a strange comment. On the one hand you trust students to be reasonable about how they throw around the Hitler/ Nazi/ fascism label - and clearly that is

This is a strange comment. On the one hand you trust students to be reasonable about how they throw around the Hitler/ Nazi/ fascism label - and clearly that is problematic - look at the name calling (not to mention riots) for people who are basically innocuous comedians or spectacles with right leaning politics, i.e. a Gavin McInnes or Milo Yiannopoulos. Then on the other hand you don't trust these same students to self regulate like intelligent adults and know what's worthy of attention and what isn't on their own, suggesting that censorship rules somehow would help them despite their infantilizing implications. If you trust them to use the Hitler/ fascist label responsibly why don't you trust them to self-regulate? Or if you think they need censorship, why don't you also talk about how irrational they are about calling people Hitler? Just feels like this position is a contradiction.

jamescostian 9y ago
> On the one hand you trust students to be reasonable about how they throw around the Hitler/ Nazi/ fascism label Nope. I do not. Much like your username, this idea and what I'm saying are orthogonal. My point is, if you'd let Hitler get booed down, why wouldn't you let someone else get booed down? Are you asking the protestors not the express themselves?
- orthoganol 9y ago
  And once again you're contradicting yourself by saying their right to shut speakers down has something to do with their ability to figure out if its actually a Hitler or not.
- notgood 9y ago
  The thing is that in any modern nation Hitler would likely have been in jail just after the first human rights violations, so he would have to give his speech from jail or something so your hypothetical example is preposterous? Seriously, your argument just reminds me of the "Anyone who dissagres with me is Hitler" meme and benefits little to the conversation and its an appeal to emotion -even when that wasn't your intention-.

jamescostian 9y ago

> On the one hand you trust students to be reasonable about how they throw around the Hitler/ Nazi/ fascism label Nope. I do not. Much like your username, this idea and what I'm saying are orthogonal. My point is, if you'd let Hitler get booed down, why wouldn't you let someone else get booed down? Are you asking the protestors not the express themselves?

orthoganol 9y ago
And once again you're contradicting yourself by saying their right to shut speakers down has something to do with their ability to figure out if its actually a Hitler or not.
notgood 9y ago
The thing is that in any modern nation Hitler would likely have been in jail just after the first human rights violations, so he would have to give his speech from jail or something so your hypothetical example is preposterous? Seriously, your argument just reminds me of the "Anyone who dissagres with me is Hitler" meme and benefits little to the conversation and its an appeal to emotion -even when that wasn't your intention-.