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> Silencing people we don’t like will make it easier for others to silence the people we do. This is a very common refrain in the help-I'm-being-censored commu
by john-radio 8y ago
> Silencing people we don’t like will make it easier for others to silence the people we do.
This is a very common refrain in the help-I'm-being-censored community, but I wish Buruma had tried to introduce some sort of evidence for this idea.
Ghomeshi's story is the opposite of that, since he was enormously well liked (including by me) prior to these several dozen accusations.
- stronglikedan 8y agoWithout getting explicit, there's plenty of historical evidence behind that statement. Evidence that spawned the idea of freedom of speech in general, and evidence later in history that inspired the Martin Niemöller poem First they came ... It is a common refrain, not just by the "help-I'm-being-censored community", but by those who are well versed in history. It should also be noted that, while Ghomeshi may have been well liked initially, he was not so well liked by the time he was "silenced", so the statement still holds true IMO.