Originally posted by jdshock
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I hope that covers paragraph 1. Paragraph 3 appears to show our agreement on effectiveness.
For paragraph 2: "The students are trying to say "I want it to be known that I stand against what this nut job is saying." That's not anti free speech; that is the epitome of free speech." In my view, protesting ideas or articulation of said ideas is in fact a protest against free speech. Ideas are meant to be shared, engaged, debated...not protested. Laws, mandates, rights (or lack there of), those are the things in which a group should come together and make their voices heard. They should protest ACTIONS not ideas. These protests should bring about debates on the soundness of ideas. These are the very ideals of free speech.
To put this into context based on logical conclusion, if I want to share my idea with a group and that group protests me as a united front against my ideas, they have effectively stopped the discourse. My only remaining available action, should I disagree is to protest their protest. In-turn my protest would be protested...rinse, repeat.
My only ask of protestors is that they stand united against a wrongful act, not an idea, because to shut down ideas in the name of protest, is to shut down the very thing that allows us to move forward as people.
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