Philosoraptor: One Noah Berlatsky Writes The Worst Thing You'll Ever Read About Freedom Of Speech

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Wow this is terrible.

Critical Spirits said...: "It's precisely because they are so loathed that Nazis must be vigorously defended, the argument goes."

Yeah...that's not how the argument goes.; 5:01 PM
Winston Smith said...: I LOL'd.

I guess stating an argument counts as a refutation now?; 5:20 PM
Critical Spirits said...: Okay call me dense, but I'm not sure if you're waging this against me or the author of the article. I mean, I can take it, just curious.; 12:34 PM
Winston Smith said...: LOL not you--I thought it was a good point against Berlatsky.; 12:40 PM
Critical Spirits said...: Good. I thought I was going to have to fight you, Winst.; 1:56 PM
Winston Smith said...: That might be a pretty funny fight, when you think about it.; 4:01 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm going to be charitable and assume he stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

I'm dumber for having read it.

This reminds me of something I read a while ago about the need to teach the arguments for liberalism, instead of assuming that the values will be picked up by osmosis from the environment.; 5:14 PM