(October 20, 2016 at 6:02 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(October 20, 2016 at 4:46 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Well, seems to me that free speech shouldn't consist of "if you don't like it, leave." What's so wrong with "If you don't like it, speak up"?
You are speaking up. Who is suppressing that?
"If you don't like it, speak up" is precisely the culture we are fostering, IMO.
No one is suppressing me, of course, and I'm not laying that charge at Staff's feet. I was simply replying to Brewer's "bitchers ought to leave" thing.
And I'll reiterate the point: inviting people to leave if they don't agree with the majority is not really conducive to the free expression of thought. The invitation may not come from the Staff -- and it certainly hasn't in this case -- but it is counter to the aims of the forum as the owner himself has laid out in this very thread.
