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Campuses have for the last 10+ years been a place where this principle has been challenged over and over again by (a loud minority of) the student body, with th
by lolinder 2y ago
Campuses have for the last 10+ years been a place where this principle has been challenged over and over again by (a loud minority of) the student body, with the university usually folding quickly under pressure and shutting down the 'offensive' speaker.
So what's going on here is a classic case of 'I never thought that the leopards would eat my face!' Progressive activists are learning that you can't spend decades building up the precedent and infrastructure for silencing speech on campus in the name of creating safe spaces and then expect to keep control over which groups of people get to declare a safe space.
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- bediger4000 2y agoIf absolute freedom of speech is a good thing, the universities should just be patiently countering the bad actors' speech, rather than applying harmful cancel culture to them. Turnabout is fair play, certainly, but this is freedom of speech.