46 - Aaron Rabinowitz - Is Civility Overrated?

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https://voidpod.com/podcasts;

and his podcast, Philosophers in Space, co-hosted by Thomas Smith, here:
https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

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https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

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Further References

Thomas Chatterton Williams, A Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race (2019)
My article on fascism:
https://areomagazine.com/2019/08/05/fascism-and-how-to-fight-it-a-letter-exchange/

Martin Luther King, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963):
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/letter-birmingham-jail

J. S. Mill, On Liberty (1859): econlib.org/library/Mill/mlLbty.html

Gurwinder Bhogal, “How Not to Deradicalize a Twitter Neonazi”:
https://areomagazine.com/2017/10/28/how-not-to-de-radicalize-a-twitter-neo-nazi/

Rohit Chopra, The Virtual Hindu Rashtra (2019):
https://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Hindu-Rashtra-Saffron-Nationalism/dp/9353029570

For our discussion of Jordan Peterson, see the timestamps:
https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/14-william-buckner-and-cody-moser

My letter exchange with Nick Kano:
https://letter.wiki/conversation/250

Clyde Rathbone’s interview on Embrace the Void:
https://voidpod.com/podcasts/2019/11/20/ev-117-letterswiki-with-clyde-rathbone

Timestamps

6:15 Is civility fetishised? Tone policing and the difficulty of arguing.
19:10 Should some people be excused from civility? Is frankness itself a privilege?
22:35 Is the left is more averse to free speech than the right?
27:13 Freedom of speech in academe
39:47 The ecological fallacy
47:30 Protesting
50:58 Moral signalling
55:27 Free speech and its trade offs; free speech on social media