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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by threeseed on Monday December 26, 2022 @08:11AM (#34137353)
> If you don't have any unpopular opinions you're not a very interesting person

Except that there are many types of unpopularity that you have conflated.

Having intolerant views about trans people for example does not in my opinion make you interesting.

It just makes you intolerant.

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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by tixialu on Monday December 26, 2022 @08:26AM (#34137436)
The problem is that being justifiably critical of laws and policies that eradicate female-only spaces is now being framed as a bigoted and intolerant anti-trans viewpoint, and this reframing is being used to suppress such critical speech.
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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by sokoloff on Monday December 26, 2022 @08:44AM (#34137566)
> intolerant views about trans people

Unfortunately, those are nowhere near universally unpopular views at this point in our human journey.

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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by naasking on Monday December 26, 2022 @10:55AM (#34138664)
> Having intolerant views about trans people for example does not in my opinion make you interesting. It just makes you intolerant.

Sure, if both parties already agree on the meaning of "intolerance", but what qualifies as intolerance is exactly the dispute.

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