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I think it's a red herring to conflate legally protected rights with community norms/informal standards of conduct. Killing a colleague's papers or grant propo
by evouga 6y ago
I think it's a red herring to conflate legally protected rights with community norms/informal standards of conduct.
Killing a colleague's papers or grant proposals in retaliation for past slights is clearly unacceptable behavior even if it is (and should remain) legal. Likewise, calling for a colleague to be fired, or starting a petition to have them stripped of their positions on editorial boards, or putting their students on a public "re-education" list, in retaliation for expressing an ill-considered or unpopular opinion, ought to be unacceptable behavior (even if, again, it is and should remain legal).
- madhadron 6y ago> calling for a colleague to be fired, or starting a petition to have them stripped of their positions on editorial board...in retaliation for expressing an ill-considered or unpopular opinion, ought to be unacceptable behavior Why? Calling for a colleague to be fired might be an ill-considered or unpopular opinion, but that just puts us in a loop. We either want no consequences for ill-considered or unpopular opinions or we don't. > putting their students on a public "re-education" list This I agree with, but only because it is no longer about the individual and their speech.