Re:Letter regarding proposed free expression statement from MIT
by azertykeys on Monday December 26, 2022 @12:42AM
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At my university there was a "Free Speech Club" that put on a panel of eugenicists and alt-right people who advocate for fascist actions. While the amount of noise Nazis make is disproportionate to their population, it doesn't take that many people to create a social change, for better or worse.
Re:Letter regarding proposed free expression statement from MIT
by Kamq on Monday December 26, 2022 @01:26AM
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> it doesn't take that many people to create a social change, for better or worse.
It doesn't, but this brings up an interesting question. Is it legitimate to limit speech to prevent social change? I'm sure there were a lot of pro-segregationists that would have loved to prevent the social changes of the 60s and 70s. Would you legitimize their attempts, in exchange for having more tools to fight nazis?
This “Nazis are everywhere” thing is a manifestation of busybody administrators and isn’t a real problem. Even if it were, it doesn’t require Byzantine declarations about approved speech.
People need to grow up and not get offended so easily.