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2017-04-27 Fifth Column

NYTimes op ed supports censorship by calling it something else

...The recent student demonstrations at Auburn against Spencer's visit ‐ as well as protests on other campuses against Charles Murray, Milo Yiannopoulos and others ‐ should be understood as an attempt to ensure the conditions of free speech for a greater group of people, rather than censorship. Liberal free-speech advocates rush to point out that the views of these individuals must be heard first to be rejected. But this is not the case. Universities invite speakers not chiefly to present otherwise unavailable discoveries, but to present to the public views they have presented elsewhere. When those views invalidate the humanity of some people, they restrict speech as a public good....

Posted by lord garth 2017-04-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 I feel like Alice in Wonderland after going down the rabbit hole; up is down, black is white, big is small, in is out, restricting speech is really free speech.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-27 09:12|| 2017-04-27 09:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Do away with free speech and peaceful assembly and now free press. The Left only wants power.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-04-27 09:53|| 2017-04-27 09:53|| Front Page Top

#3 They don't study history, do they?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-04-27 11:04|| 2017-04-27 11:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Per IowaHawk - You can regulate hate speech, if I can define what that means. Deal?

Posted by Iblis 2017-04-27 12:21|| 2017-04-27 12:21|| Front Page Top

#5 The Left only wants power.

Once this is understood and taken to heart, everything else they do becomes easier to understand.

Why do the Dems claim to care about women's rights and LBGT rights, yet love them some Islam, which is incompatible with those rights? Because the left wants only power.

Why do the Dems advocate for open borders when doing so puts the safety of us all at risk? Because the left wants only power.

Why do the college-educated left advocate for "free" stuff, when they surely understand that such policies are economically unsustainable? Because the left wants only power.

And so on. And so on.

Posted by Crusader 2017-04-27 12:29|| 2017-04-27 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 I went to the link and read the first half dozen or so paragraphs before I gave up. It seems the writer doesn't believe people should be able to talk about their personal experiences...or something to that effect. But he rambles so much and uses so many words to get to the point that I couldn't really tell. Such drivel.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-04-27 12:40|| 2017-04-27 12:40|| Front Page Top

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