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No, you've strayed from what we're discussing. The question is: Should someone be able to present a position on either side of such questions in public? My an
by downerending 7y ago
No, you've strayed from what we're discussing.
The question is: Should someone be able to present a position on either side of such questions in public? My answer is yes. For questions that are clearly "decided", those positions are very likely to be completely ignored in general. But it would be very useful to have people periodically explain why they are incorrect.
There is no DOS here, unless someone is actively interfering with (say) a professional conference. Those people should be bounced regardless of the position they're advocating.
- UncleMeat 7y agoYou led with "Part of the point of the academy is to have people argue wildly different positions. Certainly debating the merits of colonialism would fall in there." "of the academy" In the beginning, you were explicitly talking about academia. PragerU is welcome to spray its drivel all over the web. But when academics all look at that and say "this is garbage" and didn't engage on PragerU's terms, you complained. Colonialism is discussed. Constantly. There have been hundreds of academic books written on the subject in the past year or so. But these books don't set out to discuss the merits of colonialism, since that would be a waste of paper. The material is widely available if people care. PragerU doesn't.