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Politics is messy. On the one hand, people should be civil unless they have very strong reason not to be. I don't condone the behavior. On the other hand, I hav
by vacuity 3y ago
Politics is messy. On the one hand, people should be civil unless they have very strong reason not to be. I don't condone the behavior. On the other hand, I have to wonder why Duncan was invited to speak in the first place. This isn't even like, say, J.K. Rowling giving a speech about writing and being brigaded for transphobic remarks. It's Yale, a prestigious law school, inviting a notorious judge to give a talk about the law. I doubt Yale couldn't have invited someone else or something like that. And of course, it would be too much to ask both that people are civil and we don't have blatant racism in the judicial system.
I'm very big on free speech, but Yale is by no means a town square for everyone to talk in. Now this event is just another matter to wage the "culture war" upon. All hail Pyrrhus!
- cylobe 3y ago> This isn't even like, say, J.K. Rowling giving a speech about writing and being brigaded for transphobic remarks. Her remarks were in support of the rights of women to have female-only spaces, and against the linguistic erasure of women. If that is considered "transphobic" then it just goes to show the misogyny inherent in the trans advocacy movement.
- vacuity 3y agoI'm aware of that. I have some misgivings about some of the beliefs on what pro-trans means. For the purpose of this thread, though, I don't think the nuance matters, since whether Rowling is right or wrong, she'd be heckled by the students all the same. She was just the first person who came to mind for "controversial people that would be heckled".