Here's someone offering a different perspective on "free speech absolutism." I offer this as someone very sympathetic to free speech absolutism and very sympathetic to Greenwald in particular. But I think there's something to be said for having 2% skepticism here, leaving the door open to the possibility that free speech absolutism is not the whole story.
Greenwald’s Free Speech Absolutism and Twitter’s Foley Ban https://ohtarzie.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/greenwalds-free-speech-absolutism-and-twitters-foley-ban/ Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:14 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > Carrol Cox tries to pass off his lack of reading comprehension as profound > insight. If he had actually bothered reading this discussion, he would have > known that the idea of the Princeton (and Yale and other) protesters > "standing with Missouri" is one that is disputed by exactly no one. That > idea was in fact the explicit starting point of this discussion. > > The real question is what exactly does it mean to "stand with Missouri"? > Is that unambiguously a good thing? > > If you want an intelligent take on this, try Corey Robin, not Carrol Cox: > http://coreyrobin.com/2015/11/21/what-we-owe-the-students-at-princeton/ > > TL;DR version: thanks to the Princeton protesters, we are talking about > Wilson's repulsive racism, and also about how such ideologies are deeply > embedded in Princeton's history. I think he gives the protesters too much > credit, but his piece is definitely worth reading. > -raghu. > > > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Maxim Linchits <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I see that I've been ignorant, but there is so much to me than that >> little passage. I'll do work twice as hard to become more aware, and then >> I hope we can put this shameful episode behind us. Please understand and >> forgive me. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox >> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 11:30 PM >> To: 'Progressive Economics' <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Princeton protests: misplaced priorities? >> >> Maxim Linchits writes: >> >> Great find! It’s a perfect illustration of how American politics has >> become completely unhinged from reality. Liberal “anti-racism” is now >> essentially the struggle for political correctness, i.e. a war on symbols >> rather than substance. What other issues are they working on these days - >> writing angry letters in response some insensitive comments by Bill >> O’Reilly? Have they concluded their campaign to condemn Kanye West >> Halloween costumes? They need to save some of that outrage for real issues. >> With many people it seldom gets beyond “I can’t believe what I just heard, >> that’s so racist.” This is not a struggle against racism; it’s a struggle >> to save your own precious little ears and eyes. [clip] >> >> ======= >> >> Maxim writes out of sheer ignorance of how movements beging & grow. >> >> Every single one of the campus demonstrations, regardless of specific >> demands has had one and only one fundamental content: We are with you >> Missouri! >> >> Until you have grasped this you have nothing of interest to say about >> U.S. politics at this time. >> >> Carrol >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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