No, you morons don't understand. In order to protect Free Speech we need you to shut up!
Free speech advocates also misunderstand the motivation of those who might want to shut down a debate: they see this as a surefire mark of intolerance. But some debates should be shut down. For public dialogue to make any progress, it is important to recognise when a particular debate has been won and leave it there.
Even the most passionate free speech advocate might not wish to reopen the debate into whether women should be tried for witchcraft, or whether ethnic minorities should be allowed to go to university, or whether the Earth is flat. No-platformers are not scared – they simply think certain debates are over. You may disagree, but it does not mean they are against free speech.
Oh, and if you disagree that some debates should be shut down, you are a bigot, a boor and probably very stupid as well.
Martha Gill is a political journalist and former lobby correspondent. She has worked as a staffer at the Economist and the New Statesman.
Where she was probably manhandled by the perverts who run the place, but lacks the fortitude to come forward about it because the #MeToo debate is officially over.
In other news, it was discovered that Martha Gill's head is completely filled with wool. A co-worker noticed a bit of yarn protruding from one ear and pulled on it. Ms. Gill exhibits no ill effects from having 400 feet of red number 5 pulled from her now empty skull, but was heard to complain there was a bit of an echo when she speaks.
The Echoing Phantom
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