Ideas have to be refuted. I don’t see why so many seem to only care about freedom of expression when they agree with the ideas being silenced. Freedom of expression has to be a principle not a tactic.

The issue is the current climate in the institutions doesn't even allow critical theory to be refuted because these same critical theorists and their ilk make it so that even so much as saying "I'm colorblind" can get you censured at best and completely blackballed out of your profession at worst, and God help you if you draw the ire of social media.

The wokeists have made it so the average person can't even have a chance at refuting them. If some people think banning CRT is the only option left I don't blame them* since it's clear we don't even see "free expression" on campuses and elsewhere anyway.

Nevermind the question of what definition he's using for "free expression." I'd say I'm for "free expression" but I'm sure glad we have laws protecting against, say, fraud by misrepresentation. Would that mean I'm not truly for free expression by his interpretation of the term?

*we have to be really careful here, critical theory and the rest of the bunk ideology extends well past race and I worry the focus on CRT now that it's becoming a mainstream buzzword overshadows the rest of what CRT is but a small part, leaving people to get rid of CRT and thinking "problem's solved!" without noticing they only cut off one head of the woke hydra.