tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post5897425626902353694..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: Andrew Sullivan on (a) Illegal Immigration and (b) Free SpeechWinston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-67797096803322833622017-10-26T02:50:37.358-04:002017-10-26T02:50:37.358-04:00That understanding is incorrect with respect to th...That understanding is incorrect with respect to the final sentence. Public universities can't discriminate on the basis of the content of your ideas. If they let student organizations bring in Democrats to speak, then they have to let student organizations bring in Republicans to speak. If a certain lecture hall is commonly used for such events, a public university can't deny someone its Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-7076676159752532672017-10-26T02:22:00.985-04:002017-10-26T02:22:00.985-04:00My understanding of free speech is that the govern...My understanding of free speech is that the government shall not prevent you from speaking in a public space, but is not required to give you a soapbox from which to speak. <br />A lecture hall in a public university is exactly such a soapbox. Pete Mackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675790226494153847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-85278516981338337282017-10-24T14:22:10.681-04:002017-10-24T14:22:10.681-04:00It's not really a terribly odd argument--it...It's not really a terribly odd argument--it's similar to the one Sullivan uses, and I put it that way, too: if group G is saying a lot of things that don't *entail* x, but don't make a lot of sense unless they presuppose x...and, especially, if x is exactly the kind of crazy bullshit one ought to expect from G...and especially if x is the kind of thing they'd be hesitant to Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-72894390353602978622017-10-24T06:07:24.343-04:002017-10-24T06:07:24.343-04:00For what it's worth, the reason I gave you cra...For what it's worth, the reason I gave you crap about the open borders thing is that you seemed to be arguing that the left had a super-secret ulterior motive in which they masked their conspiracy to obtain open borders by focusing on this issue<br /><br />Or something.<br /><br />To say their lines of argument converge on open borders is still weird to me. Back when I was actually paying The Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813641115915460692noreply@blogger.com