(February 11, 2017 at 2:23 pm)Crunchy Wrote: Yes, end of discussion if you've been barred from speaking at a public venue where many people want to hear you. PC is not about manners its about control. It's about using labels and slurs to insist that no one else should get to hear what you have deemed as incorrect thinking. You know, censorship.
Like Dawkins being dropped from a science conference for an "inappropriate" re tweet of a joke. He offended someone so barring him from a science conference is just being polite. It's certainly not censorship.
You can fool yourself all you want that PC is just good manners. It's not. It's censorship and it's an insidious form of censorship when otherwise intelligent people start to make excuses for it.
No. It's not end of discussion when you are an editor at Breitbart, have hundreds of thousands followers, and have as many platforms as you want to get your ideas out. You seem to think that anyone is entitled any platform, and if an entity revokes a platform that the entity itself gave out freely in the first place, they are censoring. That is ridiculous.
If you put out hateful ideas, people have every right to respond with protests and requests for the event to not occur at their college. You seem to think that Milo and his fans are just harmless ideas? No. They bring with them a storm of unrest, instigated by his behavior in doxxing and threatening trans students who he doesn't think 'pass.' The worst of his followers bring things like this to the equation:
Quote:[doxxed-teacher] IS A FAGGOT WHO NEEDS HIS HEAD SPLIT” and “W-would it be gay to rape him? I mean, i-it’s not homosexual if the sex is not consensual right?”
I am not saying things like this are commonplace or even that both sides don't engage in it. But Milo brings it, his alt-right followers live on 4chan and take the anti-PC anti-SJW thing to violent or threatening extremes by design, that is their modus operandi.
Let's not pretend that Milo or Dawkins is bereft of a platform if a speaking engagement is cancelled based on public outrage. No one is preventing either of them from getting their ideas out.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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