> I don't get these articles calling on people to stop saying something the author disagrees with. If Musk is wrong then history will judge him. How will histo

> I don't get these articles calling on people to stop saying something the author disagrees with. If Musk is wrong then history will judge him. How will history judge? I don't mean "what will the judgement be?", but "what will the mechanism of judgement be?". The calls for (what is or what is perceived to be) undesireable speech to stop are the judgement of short-term history. In the long term, I believe that the consensus in good historiography is that later judgement must be based at least in part on contemporary perceptions, which won't be available if people silently wait for history to judge.