Nick Cohen’s new piece in the Guardian, “Censorship wins no arguments and just helps the right“, makes the same point that Steve Pinker did in his remarks at the Spiked discussion at Harvard: by deeming some subjects taboo to discuss, or dismissing them as unworthy of discussion, the Left drives people rightwards. While this claim has been dismissed by some, you’ll hear from the full Spiked discussion (worth watching!) that it’s true to at least some extent. Some examples: the attempt to censor or deplatform people (since 2010 mostly from the Left) on college campuses, the attempt to dismiss and demonize people without engaging them by using epithets like “alt-right” and Nazis, the curt dismissal of arguments about group differences as reflecting either “evolutionary psychology” (a supposedly discredited discipline) or “sexism”, and so on.
I’ve argued before that such censorship does the Left no good…
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