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that's a lot of kooks! Barri Weiss, Matt Taibbbi, Claire Fox, Jordan Peterson, Toby Young, on and on, and mostly just the usual suspects of people who whinge a
by bananapub 3y ago
that's a lot of kooks!
Barri Weiss, Matt Taibbbi, Claire Fox, Jordan Peterson, Toby Young, on and on, and mostly just the usual suspects of people who whinge about Free Speech when it's boycotts of their bad ideas or social exclusion for arseholes, but are nearly universally silent on e.g. billionaires harrassing uni students or US governments making you promise not to boycott Israel or suing you for defamation or trying to get you sacked from your job for saying something they disagree with.
most of the notable people on this list could do infinitely more service to the sincere cause of safeguarding free speech by shutting the fuck up a lot more and then sometimes speaking up in support of speech they don't like.
- hermitcrab 3y agoThat is quite a name list. Personally I don't think I would want my name in the same list as Jordan Peterson, Toby Young, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Peter Hitchens or Bret Weinstein.
- denton-scratch 3y agoThe list is long, and the US 1st Amendment echoes through the declaration. So I only looked for UK signatories; an awful lot of those are kooks, controversialists and provocateurs. It's almost as if they've purged the list of anyone halfway sensible.