'Many people...are eager to crusade as champions of open discourse — until someone lobs the slightest criticism in their direction.'
“[Free speech’s] purpose isn’t, or isn’t merely, to allow us to hear our own voices or the voices of those with whom we already agree," Stephens wrote in that piece. "It is also to hear what other people, with other views, often anathema to ours, have to say. To hear such speech may make us uncomfortable. As well it should. Discomfort is not injury.”
While Stephens may have intended for those lofty ideals to be applied to more serious political discussions, his reaction to Karpf’s tweet does give them an irony now. Because for Karpf what’s at play is not his right to call Stephens a bedbug, but a power dynamic that Stephens appears eager to exploit.
“Including the provost clarifies the intent of the message. It means he was not reaching out in an earnest attempt to promote online civil discourse,”“It means he was trying to send a message that he stands above me in the status hierarchy, and that people like me are not supposed to write mean jokes about people like him online. It was an exercise in wielding power — using the imprimatur of
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