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goobster  ·  2632 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Free Speech and the Paradox of Tolerance

If your ideas cannot withstand the court of public opinion, then your ideas are bad and do not deserve a public stage. This has always been, and always will be, simply due to common sense.

His "rights" were not violated. He took a public stage, and the public didn't like what he had to say, and he ran away.

Comedians get heckled. That's not violating their "rights". And the skilled comedians who actually have talent and strong ideas, can turn the tables on hecklers. Milo doesn't have that intellectual skill or integrity in actually believing what he says, so he turned tail and ran like a little bitch instead of inviting his hecklers on stage to debate on equal footing with him.





snoodog  ·  2632 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    If your ideas cannot withstand the court of public opinion, then your ideas are bad and do not deserve a public stage. This has always been, and always will be, simply due to common sense.

So according to that statement gay rights are bad idea in Russia and women's rights are a bad idea in the Middle East. I disagree. I think the court of public opinion can be wrong quite often and should not be used to judge what speech can be said.

OftenBen  ·  2632 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Violence and the threat of violence does violate the right to free speech.