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Chose a trigger warning over a speaker ban at our forum, students called me out anyway
Back in 2021 at Ohio State, I voted to keep the controversial historian with a warning label instead of cancelling him, and the student senate said I was enabling hate, but at least no one got silenced that night, so has anyone else picked the middle path and still caught flak from both sides?
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olivers2817d ago
Figured out pretty quick that both sides hate the middle path because each one wants you to pick them. Did the same thing at a city council meeting in 2022, kept a guy's slot but had staff read a content note first, and the left called me a coward while the right said I was caving to snowflakes. What saved me was writing down my reason before the vote so I could point back to it instead of getting dragged into the fight every time. Say it once, plainly, like "we don't ban speech here but people deserve a heads up," then stop explaining. The ones who scream loudest usually aren't the ones who show up to the next meeting anyway.
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