Mateen Tabatabaei | Reconciling free speech with uncomfortable opinions
It’s easy to stand for a principle like the right to free speech when the speech in question poses no threat to oneself.
It’s easy to stand for a principle like the right to free speech when the speech in question poses no threat to oneself.
Wax’s general and anecdotal observations may be distasteful and impolitic, but equating them with a breach of privacy to further “her scholarly ends,” as Ruger puts it, seems dishonest.
How should we deal with great works by ethically dubious people or communities, even in the past?
As for Penn, it’s a safe bet that none of us students knew exactly what we were signing up for. Still, as with any new path, we signed up for possibility.