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Old 09-15-2015, 09:03 PM   #40
Happy Monkey
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
What the hell is an "intellectual safe" space? Isn't intellectual and safe diametrically opposed? I would think someone who is intellectual would be welcoming for examination any and all ideas, opinions, points of view.
Someone who is promoting ideas that have been examined thoroughly and discarded, and who has shown no sign of having a new take on them, doesn't add anything. If the only result of having a particular debate would be to pad the resume of the person in question, and give them a veneer of legitimacy, then it may actually subtract.

That's not to say that every person who was invited to speak, and then uninvited due to student protest falls into that category, but that category exists.
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