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Are you able to briefly summarize the ideas presented in it? "Go read $book" sort of ends the conversation otherwise.
by tyrust 6y ago
Are you able to briefly summarize the ideas presented in it? "Go read $book" sort of ends the conversation otherwise.
- nemo44x 6y ago“ His 1993 book Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought (published by the University of Chicago Press; expanded in 2013) defends free speech and robust criticism, even when it is racist or sexist and even when it hurts.” From the authors Website. Simple to Google - it has been reprinted Ted countless times and is very popular since being published in the early/mid 1990’s.
- tyrust 6y agoSure, the point isn't for me to Google it but to have a conversation here. Thanks for the info, though.
- nemo44x 6y agoI have another post in this thread that touches on its ideas.
- erik_seaberg 6y agoThank you, a drawback of “read this public domain book” is that (while I should read it anyway) the HN thread will be long dead when I finish.
- nemo44x 6y agoYeah, but I can guarantee that you own't have to wait long around here (or elsewhere) for the principles of that book to be relevant to a conversation.