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[–] Fact_Checking_Alien ago
Answer my question. I'll prove it's not. If it wasn't, you wouldn't be trying so hard to repeatedly avoid it by discrediting its value, a value you can't possibly know unless you let me finish my point by answering it.
[–] KhuanZi ago
But I'll humor you. Here's an answer.
Nazis don't get asked to speak at commencement because they have shitty beliefs and everyone already knows it. They're openly racist and no one wants to be forced to sit through a blatantly racist speech at an event that's suppose to be a celebration. That's why they don't get invited. Similarly, other people hold beliefs that no one wants to hear at commencement. That's not censorship, it's tact and good taste. No one is going to invite me to speak at commencement, and not just because I'm just some dude on the internet. And they have no obligation to do so.
[–] Fact_Checking_Alien ago (edited ago)
So Nazi's are openly seeking to use their speech to oppress, in a real non-SJW sense, people based on race. Something we all know is a wrong thing to do, because we know history and why it's bad. You, on the other hand, are not invited because you're of no importance relative to these people.
Explain to me how either of these two apply to the speaker who is not a Nazi, and who is not you? Lets skip your answer because it'll just directly go to: Explain to me again why you think this isn't a problem?
[–] KhuanZi ago
Oh, so really you're just pissed because I won't play into your little rhetorical strategy of Socratic method? You can finish your point without my input. Of course, that doesn't work for you because your rhetorical strategy requires that I make an obvious point that you then point out the flaws in.
Since you already know what I'm going to say why don't you just say it?
[–] Fact_Checking_Alien ago (edited ago)
I'm not letting you worm out of saying you don't believe X because I'm saying it. So answer me. In your own words. If you're so terrified I'll have you trapped, don't you already realize you're wrong?
Why criticize my methods if you're trying so hard to avoid them?