"But instead we’re just being called hypocrites because we don’t suppress it. And they’re being hypocrites in accusing us of hypocrisy. So it’s very head-spinning, because what remains is the question of: Are you for this freedom or are you not?"
"This accusation of hypocrisy is confusing, and we are not sure how it could apply to FIRE..."
The "tu quoque" game is the game anyone can play. There are very few cases where a tu quoque cannot be countered by another tu quoque, if one chooses to play that (not very intellectually robust) game. It is technically an ad hominem logical fallacy, but is often used as a red herring instead.
Also, as your colleague Haidt has said, "fairness" is an important value to progressives, often to the exclusion of other values. This is where the progressive if not Marxian drive to "eliminate all contradictions" comes from.
City Journal subscribers, or first-time users, can look up how Fordham University treated its longtime professor and administrator William Baumgarth during the mandate madness to see how much that institution cares about civil rights, justice, and elementary decency. https://www.city-journal.org/article/ramming-through-a-mandate-at-fordham
"But instead we’re just being called hypocrites because we don’t suppress it. And they’re being hypocrites in accusing us of hypocrisy. So it’s very head-spinning, because what remains is the question of: Are you for this freedom or are you not?"
"This accusation of hypocrisy is confusing, and we are not sure how it could apply to FIRE..."
The "tu quoque" game is the game anyone can play. There are very few cases where a tu quoque cannot be countered by another tu quoque, if one chooses to play that (not very intellectually robust) game. It is technically an ad hominem logical fallacy, but is often used as a red herring instead.
Also, as your colleague Haidt has said, "fairness" is an important value to progressives, often to the exclusion of other values. This is where the progressive if not Marxian drive to "eliminate all contradictions" comes from.
City Journal subscribers, or first-time users, can look up how Fordham University treated its longtime professor and administrator William Baumgarth during the mandate madness to see how much that institution cares about civil rights, justice, and elementary decency. https://www.city-journal.org/article/ramming-through-a-mandate-at-fordham
I know why this stuff happens