Luckily, the followup blog is near at hand: philosophymetametablog.blogspot.com
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The Schadenfreude of those opposed to free speech is something to behold.
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The opposition isn’t to free speech, inveterate metablogger, its to irresponsible speech. There’s a difference.
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As if philosophy isn’t already in trouble for being inhospitable and hostile. We need to help and support each other. The fact that people seem to desperately need an outlet to personally attack their colleagues and complain about the feminazi capture of our discipline (yeah…) does not bode well for the profession. And I would normally sign my name under a comment like this, but I would rather not be thrashed in the meta-metablog or whatever the latest iteration of the philosophy equivalent of Gamergate is.
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Criticizing what one takes to be offensive speech is part of free speech, not part of opposing free speech.
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The PMB attracted a number of very nasty posts, mostly nasty remarks about various highly visible Philosophy bloggers and commenters. It also attracted a number of sexist, Rush Limbaughesque posts — using expressions like philfems instead of Limbaugh’s feminazis. And it attracted posts that were just plain puerile. This might be the ultimate fate of any unmoderated blog. But there were also a large number of thoughtful posts, even thoughtful debates. I even witnessed, a number of times, the rarest thing on Philosophy blogs: one discussant granting that another discussant has a point. But the best part of the PMB was Glaucon. Some of her/his poems and other OP’s were comic gold. The PMB will continue as the PMMB, which is effective the PMB minus Glaucon. Glaucon, if you’re reading this, don’t quit. Keep writing those poems. Post them somewhere: send them as comments on newapps, dailynous, and even on feministphilosophers and the PMMB. At least we know for sure that the PMMB will allow them to be posted.
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