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> For a while I was leaning against it, but on reflection I realized that there is no obligation for me to listen to or engage with people that have abhorrent v
by diffeomorphism 5y ago
> For a while I was leaning against it, but on reflection I realized that there is no obligation for me to listen to or engage with people that have abhorrent views. Rarely will doing so actually change their mind, or mine.
I don't think anyone disagrees with that, but your notion has pretty much nothing to with what other people call "cancel culture".
If there is a talk about topic "X", you not showing up is not "canceling" anything and nobody cares.
- tensor 5y agoSure, but as a private institution you also have no obligation to give a person a platform to talk about "X." The counter to this is why not give free promotion to people who can't afford it? Why are we biasing "speech" towards those who can pay to be loud? That's not freedom either. The poor are by default "canceled" in many ways.