Noah Berlatsky: Bad Ideas Aren't Worth Debating

Whew, what a steaming pile of rhetorical poop.
   I mean...that's bad even by the standards of the HuffPo.
   For the love of God, look at his list of cutting-edge lefty "thinkers" he cites. I mean...those are the people he's holding up as their best and brightest? Seriously?
   But the real point is this: the PC left basically thinks that it's right about everything, that anyone who disagrees with it is willfully obtuse and outright evil, and that all such people--those of the "bad ideas"--deserve to be "deplatformed" / shouted down.
   This is one of the many reasons that narrowing the bounds of free speech is such a terrible idea: the very people who argue that the very worst speech ought to be suppressed tend to categorize everything they disagree with as the very worst speech.

   (And incidentally (and as Mill notes): bad ideas are often eminently worth debating, for a number of reasons. For one thing, arguing against bad ideas helps us understand good ideas.)