That was a classically apt appearance because no doubt a hypothetical Nazi state would ban the ACLU.
I've been personally torn about this myself. I got chewed out once by a professor for advocating that people turn out to oppose David Horowitz. My opinion was that his speech was foul and needed obvious opposition, but I didn't want him shouted down. I thought that his schtick of going to universities promoting "academic freedom" which basically meant being able to tell liberal professors to shut up was dreck. However, he was shouted down and couldn't be heard. I felt bad about that, and agreed with the professor in the end. But, in a way, the dude was getting a taste of his own medicine: he certainly advocated for deplatforming people himself.
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That was a classically apt appearance because no doubt a hypothetical Nazi state would ban the ACLU.
I've been personally torn about this myself. I got chewed out once by a professor for advocating that people turn out to oppose David Horowitz. My opinion was that his speech was foul and needed obvious opposition, but I didn't want him shouted down. I thought that his schtick of going to universities promoting "academic freedom" which basically meant being able to tell liberal professors to shut up was dreck. However, he was shouted down and couldn't be heard. I felt bad about that, and agreed with the professor in the end. But, in a way, the dude was getting a taste of his own medicine: he certainly advocated for deplatforming people himself.