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“To save free speech we must stop funding people who theorize in bad faith, endlessly looking for ways to undermine reality so as to put themselves in power.”
by appreciatorBus 9mo ago
“To save free speech we must stop funding people who theorize in bad faith, endlessly looking for ways to undermine reality so as to put themselves in power.”
- WarOnPrivacy 9mo ago>To save free speech we must stop funding people who theorize in bad faith To believe this in a meaningful, rational way would require one to constantly call out administrations and propagandists, after months and years of debunking evidences the methods to serially operate in bad faith. In the absence of any calling out: We can reasonably surmise they are either captured by political cultists and not processing rationally - or that they are simply operating in bad faith. Granting, however, that some percent of folks simply get off on bad actors and the harm they do to those who never earned that. For them, cruelty brings it's own buzz and that is enough.
- appreciatorBus 9mo agoSounds like you’re defining a binary, a big no-no in pomo! Better to say that political disagreement exists on a spectrum.
- anigbrowl 9mo agoNo projection going on here, the modern conservative movement is a paragon of unselfish sincerity, as exemplified by the national administration. It may look like they're up to their absolute eyeballs in corruption and double dealing, but just ask them and they'll tell you they're the most honest folk to ever walk the earth, or indeed any other planet.
- UncleMeat 9mo agoI thought that universities were about exploring challenging ideas according to the free speech advocates. Are the ideas promoted by critical theorists not merely challenging ideas?