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Might be an unpopular take but I'm kinda over the free speech absolutist stance after the Jordan Peterson thing at my school
I used to think any speaker ban was automatically bad, like no question about it. Then last semester my university announced Jordan Peterson was coming and the debate got super heated. I had to pick between signing the petition to cancel it or just letting him speak and ignoring it. I ended up not signing because I figured if people want to hear him that's their choice. Honestly the event itself was fine, like 200 people showed up and nobody even protested outside. But the whole thing made me realize it's not always black and white and sometimes letting someone speak just gives them free advertising. Has anyone else changed their mind after an actual event happened on their campus?
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ericp6714d ago
Used to be all about free speech too but this situation changed my mind.
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morgan31614d ago
Hold on, if a single person acting badly is enough to make you give up on free speech, then you were never really for it in the first place. The whole point is you have to protect the speech you hate the most, or it doesn't mean anything.
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