Since supposed "experts" sometimes lose their ability to think for us (the professor in yesterday's post), we need to think through the issue for ourselves.
The most powerful case for free speech? No person or group is always right, or should force all of us to believe what they believe. Nobody is perfect. Here's a re-post from 2020:
To value free speech over restricted or coerced speech was the choice of America's founders, and that choice was affirmed by generations of Americans . . until today. Now, some choose to ban what you or I want to say if they don't approve of it.
Colleges and universities used to pride themselves on valuing open discussion regardless of who might disagree. Now administration or student groups routinely cancel speakers, or use intimidation to silence the person whose opinion they don't like.
Their choice to restrict speech means they don't have to defend their opinion against the analysis of a critic.
But there's a problem: maybe they've missed something. Maybe they don't possess all truth. Maybe they're wrong sometimes.
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