(July 16, 2019 at 8:34 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Remember, it’s just another opinion in the marketplace of ideas.
The problem with the "market place of ideas" is that some ideas, even when they are well intended, can be flat out dead wrong. Ra and Osiris and Horus and Isis were never real gods no matter how much we look at their monuments and artwork and find them amazing and pretty.
The downside to the "marketplace of ideas" is that they can and to lead to bullies getting political power, like Hitler and Stalin.
Don't get me wrong. I will lean to defending expression but also lean to defending criticism and blasphemy of that idea.
The only time I really put my foot down, is when that "idea" gets to the point of promoting oppression.
