On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > 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. >
I am afraid I don't see the relevance. Can you explain more what you are trying to say? -raghu. > > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
