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Originally Posted by rubecube
Sorry, I wasn't referring to Murray, but this section of the article:
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But if conservative students cannot invite speakers who hold what I and many other liberals consider reprehensible views, then they cannot invite many of the most prominent conservative thinkers and Republican politicians in the United States today.
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I disagree with conservatives on most issues but I wouldn't generally call their views reprehensible. |
That's the problem, though; there is a broad range of views, a broad range of conservative speakers that varying people want to denounce as reprehensible. The article itself notes that Condoleeza Rice was disinvited, who I assume would fall pretty much exactly into your category of "disagree on most issues but wouldn't call reprehensible" (same here, by the way). I remember listening to an interview with Greg Lukianoff talking about being spit on. Or look at someone referenced earlier in this thread - Ben Shapiro. The guy is ultra-conservative, but obviously not a racist, and it goes without saying that he's not a neo-nazi. But obviously some people find him reprehensible enough that
the same kind of stuff happens to him, and the same sort of cretins applaud and justify it.