If You Publicly Ridicule And Make Monkey Noises At A Black Classmate For Protesting, People Might Find Your Twitter Account Praising Hitler: Why This Is The Biggest Threat To Free Expression In America, tomorrow by, I’m going to say, Robby Soave
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/2 No seriously I absolutely predict that there will be hand-wringing over the public identification of a guy who chose to be a very public bigot to revile another student, to the complete exclusion of any thought about the student’s speech interests
/3 Because seriously the ethos of the modern “free speech culture” movement is this: most horrifying thing about this picture is “oh my god these days the screamer would be identified right away and that’s terrible for free speech”
Fun fact: She was identified. As an adult she regretted her behavior and apologized to the Black woman in the photo and they became friends for a while until she got weird about it, an extremely predictable white lady character arc
/4 If you want to know why this makes me so mad it’s because free speech is a deal, a bargain, and people seem absolutely determined to convince a new generation that the deal is disingenuous racist bullshit.
"You've got to take the bad with the good" has always been in the back of my head when I think about 1A/moderation issues that I read about online, because Calvin's dad nailed it back in 1989. To the point where it's still basically the first thing I think about.
I don’t see how this solves it. Say person 2 is intolerant to person 1. Person 3 sees that person 2 is breaching the social contract, and therefore becomes intolerant to person 2. Person 4 sees person 3 breaching the social contract, and therefore becomes intolerant to person 3., etc., etc.
Yes. If people are intolerant the system breaks down until the intolerance is eliminated. In the case of Nazis, the threat is so large and immediate, violence is acceptable.
Maybe the cops can use their licence for violence, but in their absence
Gotta admit I'm a little concerned about someone who apparently teaches this and thought it was a real paradox, rather than something people who don't actually understand the principle think is a paradox, like the horse and cart problem wrt Newton's laws
To indulge in some interdisciplinary sneering: rhetoric is about extending “debates” without resolving them. Of *course* logicians and physicists and economists and social scientists know that the “paradoxes” in their fields aren’t actual contradictions. But those whose “expertise” is argument…
It’s hardly surprising. The lay left tends to treat everything as an absolute moral principle even when it is not. The widespread use of the term “right” for things that are actually entitlements, for example.
It is unfortunate but what can you do. Rigor just isn’t a thing for most people.
We really need to get out of the habit of using the word ‘paradox’ to dress up anything that’s ironic or counterintuitive from the most simplistic point of view.
I have no idea who that is so I googled the name and fuck me if the first image that came up didn't look like something out of a hitlerian recruitment poster.
Didn't this guy out himself? Who are we to infringe on his 1st Amendment right to tell everyone that he is a massive, unrepentant bigot? Shout that shit from the rooftops.
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Also known as - Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
Maybe the cops can use their licence for violence, but in their absence
https://archive.org/details/NaziPunchedBlueMonday
It is unfortunate but what can you do. Rigor just isn’t a thing for most people.
...Cap'n Jack Sparrow