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Two Professors Argue Democracy is Ill-Served by Free Speech on Campus (“Free-Speech Rhetoric…concedes too much to right-wing agendas… When free speech drowns out expert speech, we all suffer.”)
Hot Air ^ | November 20, 2023 | John Sexton

Posted on 11/25/2023 7:45:08 AM PST by DoodleBob

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The opinion piece by the Stasi, erm, professors is behind a paywall and per FR rules we cannot link to it. If you search, eg, blogs like Miscellany Central, you can find thing reposted.
1 posted on 11/25/2023 7:45:08 AM PST by DoodleBob
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the left used free speech to squeeze into the door and now that they are in and are trying to push conservatives out and close it.


2 posted on 11/25/2023 7:47:05 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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“The only way to make a bad idea sound like a good idea is to silence the good idea that shows just how bad the bad idea really is” L.Star


3 posted on 11/25/2023 7:49:39 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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Idiocy on display at Arizona State. Post Modernist thinking rejects logic and relies on relativity.


4 posted on 11/25/2023 7:50:21 AM PST by Eva
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Richard Amesbury and Catherine O’Donnell


5 posted on 11/25/2023 7:51:16 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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Richard Amesbury is a professor of religious studies and philosophy at Arizona State University.

Catherine O’Donnell is a professor of history at Arizona State University.


6 posted on 11/25/2023 7:52:02 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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These people are absolutely insufferable.

L


7 posted on 11/25/2023 7:53:48 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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Why not tell us their names?


8 posted on 11/25/2023 7:54:00 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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They both should be fired for intentionally representing “acceptable selected speech” as “free speech.”

The school would be better off just running their gaming theory classes so the Strip could have more dealers, croupiers, etc.


9 posted on 11/25/2023 7:54:39 AM PST by Gaffer
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Case in point: living a gay lifestyle reduces life expectancy by over 20 years. More than obesity, smoking, alcoholism, and drug use combined!

And yet they push it on young people. The left should be sued by the millions of families who have had to grieve over this.


10 posted on 11/25/2023 7:54:54 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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Expert speech? For a bunch of atheists they sure do believe in the divine right of kings like themselves.


11 posted on 11/25/2023 7:56:56 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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Free Speech to them was never about the free exchange of ideas.

It was always, you shut up and let us talk.

12 posted on 11/25/2023 7:57:41 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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“A pair of professors from Arizona State University wrote an essay which was published last week by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The gist of the article is that academics are overestimating the value of free speech. In fact, they come to the conclusion that free speech is a right-wing framing which ought to be rejected by colleges who, after all, have lots of experts on hand to determine what is and is not acceptable speech on a given topic.“

I DEFY The Bee to beat that!

These commie scum need free speech to get their pagan religion out into the air but they then need to kill free speech if they want to keep it there.

You don’t vote your way out of socialism…


13 posted on 11/25/2023 7:58:20 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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Free speech is “acting white”.

In the third world they just execute dissenters.


14 posted on 11/25/2023 7:58:42 AM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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Noticeably they avoid an honest critique of their own respective fields, each of which has been subject to leftist bastardization. Of course they object to free speech. It puts them at risk of being totally discredited.


15 posted on 11/25/2023 8:00:01 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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Universities are centers of Marxist indoctrination. Of course they don't like free speech.

It's hard to indoctrinate the sheep when free speech wolves are permitted to enter the flock and tell the truth about Marxism.

16 posted on 11/25/2023 8:00:06 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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The First Amendment was written specifically against such tyrants who wish to curtail speech.

The Second Amendment was written to protect the First - and all the others.


17 posted on 11/25/2023 8:03:24 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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These commies should be shamed and fired for undermining free speech as an example to their ilk. Claiming that academics are “experts” is a symptom of insanity. They are a threat to themselves and others.


18 posted on 11/25/2023 8:11:40 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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And these guys aren’t outliers either. Being anti-free speech is the orthodox position of the academic left even if it isn’t advertised in public very often. You can see it most clearly in how conservative speakers are treated when they come to campus. And also in the left’s equation of certain types of speech (namely speech they don’t like) with violence.


19 posted on 11/25/2023 8:13:10 AM PST by Yardstick
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Free speech only benefits those who have convincing arguments.

Which explains why certain groups oppose it.

20 posted on 11/25/2023 8:18:18 AM PST by Angelino97
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