this week in "Public policy": a super racist dude is booked to give a book talk in your community room. The NAACP has said they're gonna protest. Do you cancel the event?

And I'm like OBVIOUSLY YOU CANCEL THE FUCKING EVENT DID NO ONE GOOGLE THIS GUY

one of my classmates is like, "well this is a debate with two sides" NO IT ISN'T

THERE IS ONE SIDE HERE AND IT IS FUCK NO

ah but what about the ~speech of freedom~

doesn't protect hate speech!

also: "the library has the right to cancel or decline any events that may be potentially disruptive etc etc"

I really don't get people who are like "ah yes let's the racist"

My friend had this discussion in her museum studies course and it still gets my goat

What's worse is that the question had the literal example of being "The guy who wrote The Turner Diaries" which is like. Trigger warning for everything even looking it up tbh???

Yikeys

free speech means they can say it! it doesn't mean they can do so IN MY LIBRARY

doesn't mean we have to give them a platform!!!

hey can rent some other place to have their neo-Nazi bullshit