The Right to a Platform

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If you're in charge of a student group that invites outside speakers, who do you invite? I mean, milonopolis, charles murray? You know, we don't have to enable everybody to have a voice, but we want some diversity. The idea that if you don't invite my lnopolis to the university, you are therefore violating his free speech is an absolute nonsense. My free speech is not threatened by that. It's absolutely fine. Right er is no automatic right to a platform.

Political Correctness has formed the basis for a new intolerant mindset, actively policing speech that is deemed offensive or controversial. Rather than confront bad ideas through discussion, it has now become common to intimidate one’s detractors into silence. Taking on board legitimate concerns about how speech can be harmful, Andrew Doyle argues that the alternative — an authoritarian world in which our freedoms are surrendered to those in power — has far worse consequences.