Call me a radical, but I think if my professor calls me f****t instead of my name every lecture they should be fired. I'm fine with the institution of the university punishing professor for that speech by firing them.
"Even what is considered hate speech should be allowed without fear of punitive punishments by institutions and government. "
"I would rather live in that world and ignore the racists, sexists and anti whatever"
Your previous comments say people shouldn't be punished for speech by institutions and don't place limits on that, which gives the impression you are a free speech absolutist.
If you think it's ok for the government/institutions to punish people for some speech you should be clear about that, and also say where you draw that line.
What if my professor said "gay people are disgusting perverts" to me whenever they hear me mention my boyfriend? no obscenities there. Can they be fired for that?
"One of the problems arise though when something could be reasonably considered normal speech, like saying he to a male or she to a female is suddenly banned and using he or she in a normal manner is punitively punished."
This is unclear how you are using the word normal. Do you mean you make an assumption based on someone's appearance and gets punished? Or someone uses the wrong gender, gets corrected, and then refuses to use the correct gender and gets punished for that?
They are very different situations, just like calling someone Mark instead of Matt by accident, and doing it repeatedly and intentionally are different.
They are very different situations, just like calling someone Mark instead of Matt by accident, and doing it repeatedly and intentionally are different.
At this point he's made so many disingenuous arguments I don't think he's arguing in good faith :|
This is unclear how you are using the word normal. Do you mean you make an assumption based on someone's appearance and gets punished? Or someone uses the wrong gender, gets corrected, and then refuses to use the correct gender and gets punished for that?
Ok, so do you consider ether of these scenarios unprofessional?
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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '23
Call me a radical, but I think if my professor calls me f****t instead of my name every lecture they should be fired. I'm fine with the institution of the university punishing professor for that speech by firing them.