Has anyone said he should be platformed without criticism? The point of contention seems to be that many people think he shouldn’t have been a speaker at all and that everyone who interacts with him is tainted. That is not a subtle difference.
As HL Mencken famously said, “The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
If principles only apply to the people that uphold them, then they’re not principles: they’re just another word for tribalism. Lovely conflict theory you’ve got there.
Has anyone said he should be platformed without criticism? The point of contention seems to be that many people think he shouldn’t have been a speaker at all and that everyone who interacts with him is tainted. That is not a subtle difference.
As HL Mencken famously said, “The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
If principles only apply to the people that uphold them, then they’re not principles: they’re just another word for tribalism. Lovely conflict theory you’ve got there.