Your characterization of his post isn't exactly charitable. What he's saying is that the practice of shouting down and de-platforming speakers you don't agree with means you never have to confront ideas and people you don't agree with. If you never have to defend your views, they're held as a dead dogma. This isn't a new argument; it goes back several hundred years as a foundational principle of free speech - we want an open marketplace of ideas not just because the minority view might be right, but because even if it's wrong, it's important to test our views against opposition to strengthen them and gain a full appreciation for our basis for believing in them.
In other words, it's exactly what Van Jones said in that video I posted. I love his metaphor; "I'm not going to take all of the weights out of the gym. That's the entire point of the gym.
This is the gym." College, university, these are places where people should never be safe from opposing viewpoints. Many of those are going to be considered offensive or upsetting to some degree or other, but that's the point. You have to be able to deal with those diverse opposing views intellectually or you aren't an intellectual.
As for whether it's specifically a problem with the campus left (who I'm not going to call "liberal"), yeah, it clearly is, hence why these stories happen all the time and why everyone from me to Barack Obama has made note of it and decried it to varying degrees. It's a side effect of one side's views being in the clear moral majority in a particular environment, which is very obviously the case on campus.
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My comment about Milo, was illustrating that it's possible that universities etc. should not just let anyone speak there carte blanche.
How about a white supremacist that advocates violence against non whites? should they be allowed to speak at universities? should Liberals let them, not just because they are stupid and don't understand their own arguments, but because of free speech and the 1A? Should Milo be allowed to go give a speech about the positive aspects of pedophilia?
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First, if Milo wants to do that speech, and the university administration or some student organization has invited him to give it (which seems unlikely), then yes - he should be able to make it. That's key - the people whose talks are being shut down are in every case I'm aware of
invited by other students or the faculty. Another group of students gets angry that this
clearly evil person is giving a talk, and concludes that
they should get to decide who is allowed to speak, and by extension what sorts of views their fellow students should be allowed to hear, on campus. That's a problem.
As far as Milo goes (and this is apparently a moot point because I gather that whole 'pedophilia's fine' thing has more or less ruined his "career"), the people who oppose his views - you and me included apparently - should go, listen, stand up at the microphone during the question period and point out why he's an idiot. Alternatively you can do one better: do exactly what was supposed to happen in Middlebury and arrange for the event to be a conversation between two people who disagree with each other, so that diverging views are represented. This is what was done a couple of times last year with Jordan Peterson at U of T and his refusal to address people by gender-neutral pronouns; they had one or more additional speakers give a different perspective at the same event. Or stage a separate event, or respond to the event in the student newspaper, and so on. There are a ton of ways to address these things that don't involve, for example, putting on a ski mask and assaulting another human being for being willing to talk to someone you don't like.
I agree with you that I'd draw the line at not permitting any speaker to incite violence. I'd also probably be pretty okay if you had a rule that said no speaker could individually single out for criticism any particular student (other than those who engage them directly at the talk obviously) which I understand from that Real Time interview was part of Milo's schtick.