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no, most of the noise is from people who aren't as well-known or intellectually rigorous as chomsky and rushdie (whether you agree with them or not). these well
by clairity 6y ago
no, most of the noise is from people who aren't as well-known or intellectually rigorous as chomsky and rushdie (whether you agree with them or not). these well-known rhetoriticians expect and likely welcome the pushback (obviously the counterarguments, not the threats on their lives). theirs is the exceptional context, not the exception that invalidates the general condition.
- philwelch 6y agoThe fact remains that both Chomsky and Rushdie signed the Harpers open letter and are hence two of the people publicly advocating on behalf of the people who have been silenced. You simply can’t honestly claim that this is an overreaction from people who aren’t used to pushback.
- clairity 6y agono, it's a rejection of your argument from authority, not a supporting claim of "overreaction from people who aren’t used to pushback". if you think there are other substantial coutnerclaims, please make them.
- philwelch 6y agoYou said: “the people telling you they're being silenced is a group of privileged folks unaccustomed to being pushed back upon publicly, with "cancel culture" as the reactive appellation for that push back?” Which I interpreted as: “the only people who complain about cancel culture are unaccustomed to pushback” and disproved by counterexample. It occurs to me now that perhaps you didn’t mean “all”. You meant “some”. That’s called nutpicking and it means your original claim wasn’t substantial enough to discuss in the first place.