For me, the Free Speech Union doesn’t really make much of a case. I mean, sure, the more precise the definition, the better, but “negative and prejudicial stereotyping of Muslims” is fairly clearly what they’re about, and fairly clearly does not apply to criticism of religion and Islam in general.
I mean, one has to recognize that there is a significant and unhealthy element of prejudice – that arguably, isn’t really a bit theological, it’s simply tribal. If you can devise a superior formula that more precisely targets this … well, it’s probably too late, but that’s where this effort should have gone. If there is a better formula, which I doubt.
The real problem is already here, in places like the universities that can be jerked around by victim of oppression factions, because they’re run by spineless fund-raising business admins who don’t care about free speech at all. Who knows that your tsar won’t be a little more judicious? Couldn’t be less.
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December 25, 2019
For me, the Free Speech Union doesn’t really make much of a case. I mean, sure, the more precise the definition, the better, but “negative and prejudicial stereotyping of Muslims” is fairly clearly what they’re about, and fairly clearly does not apply to criticism of religion and Islam in general.
I mean, one has to recognize that there is a significant and unhealthy element of prejudice – that arguably, isn’t really a bit theological, it’s simply tribal. If you can devise a superior formula that more precisely targets this … well, it’s probably too late, but that’s where this effort should have gone. If there is a better formula, which I doubt.
The real problem is already here, in places like the universities that can be jerked around by victim of oppression factions, because they’re run by spineless fund-raising business admins who don’t care about free speech at all. Who knows that your tsar won’t be a little more judicious? Couldn’t be less.