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.
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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?