# Well dang. If you didn't think Scott Adams was a piece of shit before, just look at him now! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2023, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277 "2023-02-24T06:16:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 137
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277/137 "2023-02-26T21:20:13Z")
We’ve had something pretty close to this discussion before: > [@Identity, politics, and the in-fighting of the left](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-politics-and-the-in-fighting-of-the-left/843199/241): > > I’m not a scholar, but I think I’m pretty close to the fringe liberals on “critical race theory”, and nowhere that I see does it call for stifling debate or suppressing speech. Rather, it makes very pointed criticisms of much of the conventional wisdom of both conservatives and liberals, and sometimes that criticism is made very harshly. But CRT doesn’t call for or condone threats or other things that can stifle speech, AFAICT. I still hold that most of this consternation comes about because s… If it’s just a philosophical disagreement – i.e. you believe Twitter or some other entity is not behaving in a way consistent with free expression (or free speech) and you encourage criticism to get it to change their ways, then we don’t have a significant disagreement here, IMO. But if you believe Twitter or other private entities (like the SDMB) should be forced by government to better adhere to your preferred philosophy of free expression, then IMO that’s a violation of private free speech rights – specifically, the rights of private entities to determine the speech they allow on their platform/property. That’s a much more significant disagreement. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-dang-if-you-didnt-think-scott-adams-was-a-piece-of-shit-before-just-look-at-him-now/980277)._