Posted on 04/24/2017 7:35:48 AM PDT by smashtheleft
The New York Times today publishes an extraordinary column, titled: What ‘Snowflakes’ Get Right About Free Speech. In it, Ulrich Baer, the vice provost for faculty, arts, humanities, and diversity at New York University argues at length that what liberal snowflake students who want to censor “offensive” ideas get right about free speech is, basically, everything. The gist of his argument is that some propositions are so dehumanizing to the affected people that they are impossible to rebut with equal humanity and legitimacy. He invokes such clashes a Holocaust deniers, racists, or opponents of illegal immigration confronting Holocaust survivors or their loved ones, minorities, or illegal immigrants. In each case, he contends the attack holds its targets down, and prevents them from fairly responding . Got that? If Provost Ulrich had his way, the phrase “illegal immigration” would be prohibited hate speech at NYU because it prevents the fair debate that Ulrich would like to see.
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Like Pelosi said that unemployment insurance money helps the economy, allows women to stay home with their kids.
Ulrich bear scares ME. I find HIS speech hateful and offensive. Therefore, by HIS standards, he should be fired.
That muffled sound you hear is George Orwell yelling from his grave, "Dammit! Why didn't I think of that one!?"
the phrase “illegal immigration” would be prohibited hate speech at NYU because it prevents the fair debate that Ulrich would like to see.
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“Illegal immigration” is the true way to describe it’
Debate over.
That was fair.
This prevents the whiney, crying fits that snowflakes call debate.
If you cannot defend your views in the market place of ideas, label opposing viewpoints “hate speech” and shut them down. Violently.
Got it.
Didn’t Herbert Marcuse already say all this before? I believe he called free speech “repressive tolerance.”
Coming up next - girls are boys, boys are girls, up is down, down is up, right is wrong, wrong is right... all presented as “settled science,” according to the loopy left, with penalties for disagreeing with them.
Since immigration is a specific process through which people are legally admitted to another country, the term “illegal immigration” is self-contradictory.
Someone should call Amnesty International. This guy is torturing Logic to death.
LOL!! These “people” have no minds! Slavery is freedom! War is peace!! Censorship is free speech!! The walking brain dead.
Dang, you know how to shut down ‘fair debate’.
These people are pathetic. How do they even survive daily life?
By definition, Orwellian.
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