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There are cases where one group of students invites a speaker, and another group shows up to crash the event. That happened earlier this year at Stanford when t
by the_snooze 3y ago
There are cases where one group of students invites a speaker, and another group shows up to crash the event. That happened earlier this year at Stanford when their Federalist Society invited a Trump-appointed judge [1]. For all the justifiable problems with FedSoc, don't those students still have a right to host such an event in peace?
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/us/stanford-law-free-speech.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/us/stanford-law-free-spee...
- etchalon 3y agoThose students have a right to host the event and the other students have a right to protest the event. Behold, free speech.
- the_snooze 3y ago>Duncan, who has defended Louisiana’s gay-marriage ban and a North Carolina law restricting transgender people from using their preferred bathrooms, was repeatedly heckled by students and couldn’t speak more than a few words without interruption. Would you consider this fair protest? It's a legally tricky issue [1], but I'm of the view that normalizing this leads to a dangerous social environment (e.g., shouting down LGBT speakers at their events). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler's_veto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler's_veto
- etchalon 3y agoI don't think there is such a thing as a "fair protest". Protests are, by their nature, disruptive.