WHY PLATFORM JORDAN PETERSON? Sam Harris, Matt Dillahunty #samharris #jordonpeterson #mattdillahunty

[Pangburn]

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[dwolfcoach]

Right! A free exchange of ideas can't die on our college campuses. It's supposed to thrive there!

[unrealdevon]

People who want to cancel others need to shut up.
Free speech is for all, and especially those you don't agree with.

[pjkammer]

Thinking of college students as customers is wrong-headed. Customers should be given what they want in most market scenarios. You can't treat higher education students that way. They're not there to tell us what to teach them.

[Kurtlane]

"We don't want that on our campus. We don't want to learn. We just need the university to reaffirm what we already know, and then pet us and tell us that we are moral and virtuous."

[brambledemon]

No, students aren't customers in a traditional sense of the word. They're there specifically to get exposed to a wide variety of subjects and viewpoints. That’s a critical part of being an educated person.

[matteofaccin]

And they both embarrassed him. Good times

[INCYTER]

Hilariously I was thinking who is Dillahunty

[af]

What Matt was saying made sense until he referred to higher ed students as "customers." Students should not have a curated experience, they aren't regular "customers." It's the universities obligation to expose them to any reputable thinker from the left or the right, and anyone outside the norm of traditional political thinking as well. And by reputable, I mean anyone that can already sell books or venues, or runs a successful business. Yes, this would include people like Alex Jones or Sam Seder or Robin De-Angelo.

[genemaruszewski]

same reason anyone gives Dillahunty a platform

[mcmc]

Are they really little, or are the chairs really big?

[wayneharrison]

Free speech is paramount, as long as you are free not to listen if you don't want to. 🙈🙉🙊

[Thelatenightchipshopexperience]

Students are indeed customers but they cant moan that they purchased entry to academia and then get annoyed that they don't like the speakers. When you go to uni you absolutely expect to hear people with different views present those ideas and you get to debate and interrogate them. If that isn't what you want, DON'T BUY IT!

Certainly don't prevent the other customers from accessing the product


It's like buying a ticket for disneyland and screaming at everyone who goes ti the magic kingdom and saying they shouldn't get to go because magic is evil.

[jamesclaydon]

Cuz it’s not “ their” campus. It’s “ the” campus.

[musiclover]

As Evelyn Beatrice Hall once opined, "I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it." We shouldn't censor people's views, just because we disagree with them. I'm not suggesting that free speech is absolute but there must be compelling reasons to silence dissent. I think Jordan Peterson spouts nonsense but he has a right to express himself. People who disagree with him ought to be able to have the right to debate him and challenge his views. In my submission, this is a hallmark of civil discourse.

[danielbretall]

I love when Sam Harris pummels JP. It’s great!! JP gets away with his antics by fast talking big words to regular people. Sam Harris is not regular people!!!😂😂

[ohgodyeahgamer]

Imagine wanting to cancel someone coming from a guy that says "trans women are women" matt dillahunty 😅

[bungle]

They look so tiny in those chairs.. Like morning prayer with Skott and Behr 🙏🏼

[brettandersson]

It’s not a matter of not wanting certain ideas presented at universities. It’s about academic honesty, integrity, and truthfulness. For example, having a respected guest astrophysicist give a lecture is totally acceptable because his ideas can be tested. That is to say, they are falsifiable and therefore much more reliable. People who speak on social issues is a wildly different situation. In large part, their claims are either heavily propagandized, half-truths, outright lies, or have already been exhaustively debated/debunked. Furthermore, they present their case as self-evident and unfalsifiable. They insist their view is correct and to question that, apply pressure, or present evidence to the contrary means you are the enemy. Or that your evidence is wrong for some unspecified reason. The reason campuses don’t allow certain speakers is because that speaker, almost without exception, is likely presenting something that is both completely opinion-based and lacks critical scholarship.

[animalsmistakenformonsters]

The question wasn’t really answered here. Why don’t you give Andrew Tate a platform here then?