Quote (fender @ May 29 2017 03:08pm)
agreed for the most part but some points are stupid:
freedom of speech does NOT mean you are forced to listen to the "thought that we hate" over and over again, it means that you respect and tolerate the right to HAVE and VOICE that thought, which is an important difference.
also, it's retarded to equate peacefully walking out on certain speakers (especially such who have a history of being bigoted asswipes), and disturbing / silencing / attacking certain speakers and their ideas just because you disagree with them.
Freedom of speech and the right to freedom of speech are two different things. One involves the population, the other involves government authority. Protesting conservatives on campus to the point of not allowing them to speak, is infringing on their freedom of speech. Liberals would be better off engaging them with ideas, which I think is what Fareed Zakaria was talking about.
You can claim that students should walk out on Mike Pence cause he's a bigot, but there's plenty of good reason to walk out on an Obama, Clinton, or Sanders because they support restricting the right to firearms, or they support abortion on demand, or they support the state forcing religious groups to violate their conscience. There's arguments on both sides as to why you should disrespect a person. Being an adult means you give respect to people who hold certain authority, unless they've violated the office so much that you should protest them. Mike Pence isn't an example of that.
I mean, to some of the people who walked out, simply being against gay marriage is a reason to protest the speech, yet Obama and Clinton were against it just a few number of years ago.
This post was edited by IceMage on May 29 2017 02:21pm