Spotted this the other day (pictured above). It's a thought provoking rebuttal and analysis from Dawkins over a tweet that caused his 1996 award from the AHA to be "rescinded", a somewhat ridiculous notion in any case. Anyway, I agree with his analysis, at some point we need to be able to hear the viewpoint of people that we disagree with (not just in Universities) and we must have the right to listen to ideas that we may or may not ultimately support without some third party filtering and censuring them first (particularly unelected and self appointed ones!). We also should be able to discuss difficult and controversial issues like adults, without throwing a hissy fit and trying to get the proposer fired for a badly made argument or an inappropriate joke. If we can't do that simple thing then we're almost certainly destined to make the fatal mistakes of history over and over again.
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