Yelling fire in a crowded theater is a metaphor. If the theater is on fire, the situation is obviously more ambiguous. > And that's the whole point: we're not

Yelling fire in a crowded theater is a metaphor. If the theater is on fire, the situation is obviously more ambiguous. > And that's the whole point: we're not worried about people arguing over most things. We're worried when they are arguing over truthful things that are sensitive, and often ideological. Like 'identity' etc.. I'm not worried about people arguing about anything, truthful or not, and I don't have a problem with respectful conversation around ideology, large-scale protest, or any other communicative action that respects individual humans. I am worried about harassment, sending death threats, suicide requests, showing up at someone's house uninvited, etc. Not many academics are doing this personally, but are they complicit in this harassment if they're tweeting out-of-context remarks to groups of followers who have engaged in this harassment in the past? At least, that's the complaint in piece I posted above, without endorsement, and I repeat that I do not know the facts in question there. (I am also worried about echo chambers that deceive people into holding beliefs through mere repetition, but that's another conversation.) > I only see people people reacting to those they disagree with in oppressive ways. You and me both -- isn't harassment one of these ways?