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I think students secretly recording class should be kicked out of class. (For one thing, it's a privacy violation of the other students.) And yes, it's authoritarian - old school McCarthyism.
Now, do we agree both things are bad?
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3. Students who shout down speakers in a public forum on campus are basically short-pants totalitaritarians.
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I think students secretly recording class should be kicked out of class. (For one thing, it's a privacy violation of the other students.) And yes, it's authoritarian - old school McCarthyism.
Now, do we agree both things are bad?
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I'll wuss out and say I don't this something one can simply set some easy rules for, and can be very context dependent.
And I couldn't care less: Shouting down speakers on campus is authoritarian bullshit and college students should never do it.
And I couldn't care less: Shouting down speakers on campus is authoritarian bullshit and college students should never do it.
If government were preventing a speaker to speak, then the "rights" talk would be appropriate.
"People I don't like should not be heard" is probably not a principle you should be defending, ever, but especially not these days.
"People I don't like should not be heard" is probably not a principle you should be defending, ever, but especially not these days.
What's the speaker advocating?
What power does the speaker have?
What's the magnitude of the disruption vs. the magnitude of the harm being protested?
etc
And I couldn't care less: Shouting down speakers on campus is authoritarian bullshit and college students should never do it.
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