“The claim that we should not have “limited discussions” is closing the barn door after the horse is already out.”—Some discussions about what should or should not allowed to be discussed are much more politicised than others and hence much more damaging. (In case it seems like I’ve contradicted myself here, my point is not that discussions about what should be allowed to be discussed should be banned, merely that a serious movement towards banning particular ideas encourages more of these adversarial discussions and hence the more positive and welcoming environment that is typically promised rarely materialises)
“We believe that someone is excluded to a greater degree when they are not allowed to share their sincerely held beliefs than when they are merely exposed to beliefs that they disagree with.”—This only referred to the degree of exclusion that would be experienced by a single individual for one of those two options. Obviously, the number of people affected is important as well as you point out.
Perhaps it is possible to discuss those issues while dodging political landmines, but there’s also the worry about people being less willing to share views too close to the edge of the Overton Window.
“The claim that we should not have “limited discussions” is closing the barn door after the horse is already out.”—Some discussions about what should or should not allowed to be discussed are much more politicised than others and hence much more damaging. (In case it seems like I’ve contradicted myself here, my point is not that discussions about what should be allowed to be discussed should be banned, merely that a serious movement towards banning particular ideas encourages more of these adversarial discussions and hence the more positive and welcoming environment that is typically promised rarely materialises)
“We believe that someone is excluded to a greater degree when they are not allowed to share their sincerely held beliefs than when they are merely exposed to beliefs that they disagree with.”—This only referred to the degree of exclusion that would be experienced by a single individual for one of those two options. Obviously, the number of people affected is important as well as you point out.
Perhaps it is possible to discuss those issues while dodging political landmines, but there’s also the worry about people being less willing to share views too close to the edge of the Overton Window.