Dissent Is Good For You

Orcinus points to a lengthy list of rightwing academics who would be ripe for a Churchilling if there existed a left wing machine capable of doing it.

But even if we could, it would be self defeating to demand that they lose their jobs. Academic freedom demands that scholars with repugnant views be allowed to make their arguments so that an intellectual debate can take place. I think that the Right is making a mistake if they think that they’ll be able to hang on to power if they shut people up. One of the reasons they’ve been successful in selling their ideas is that they spent years honing their arguments. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and all that.

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