The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. Thread starter FrogReaver; Start date Jul 7, 2020; Status Not open for further replies. “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate” has just been published online in Harper’s. It was organized as “a group effort, started by journalists of color with contributions from the larger journalism, academic, and publishing community.”Signees included an unnamed journalist at NBC News, The New York Times and The Hill, among many others. The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. A Letter on Justice and Open Debate, often referred to as The Letter or The Harper's … While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom, which cannot exist without each other. Friday’s response letter claims that the original letter’s “great concern” appears to be that “Black, brown, and LGBTQ+ people – particularly Black and trans people – can now critique elites publicly and hold them accountable socially.”The response letter pushes back on claims from the original letter, including that: “editors are fired for running controversial pieces,” “books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity,” “journalists are barred from writing on certain topics,” “professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class,” a researcher was “fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study” and that “the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes.”“In fact, a number of the signatories have made a point of punishing people who have spoken out against them,” the response letter reads. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org Our … You can help confirm this entry by contributing facts, media, and other evidence of notability and mutation.Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. In response, writer Malcolm Gladwell tweetedAlso on July 7th, Vox writer Emily VanDerWerff tweetedAlso on July 8th, Vox co-founder Ezra Klein tweeted Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police … The letter, which warned of an “intolerant climate” permeating left-wing political discourse, sparked intense debate over the state of free speech in politically progressive … The original letter, titled “A Letter on Open Justice and Debate,” endorsed free speech but sparked backlash from many.Multiple Vox writers, for example, openly condemned their colleague Matt Yglesias, who signed the letter. A Letter On Justice And Open Debate By AM Friday, July 10, 2020. I consider the contents both urgent and enduring; I am honored to be one of the signers, along with many people I respect and admire (as well as people I disagree with on many issues and people whose work I don’t know). Jul 7, 2020 #1 A Letter on Justice and Open Debate | Harper's Magazine July 7, 2020 The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. Digital Archaeologist & Archivist & Media Bus Boy "Strawberry Dress" Is The Dress Of The Summer Online And IRL The Extremely NSFW Dorvamon Is Your Gross-Out Cursed Comic Of The Day Learn To Pick Your Legal Defense With "Look At My Lawyer" Memes As writers we need a culture that leaves us room for experimentation, risk taking, and even mistakes. Free Speech "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate," with Many Prominent Liberal Signers Posted at the Harper's Magazine site. The "radical right" enclaves on the internet are literally the only places where you won't be banned for not falling in line. I don’t agree with everything in either letter but it’s worth reading this one if you read the first one. If we won’t defend the very thing on which our work depends, we shouldn’t expect the public or the state to defend it for us.That evening, author Jennifer Boylan tweeted an apology, stating that she "did not know who else signed that letter."