Numbers guru Nate Silver, of FiveThirtyEight fame, tweets some wisdom those of us who follow current events need to remember. He writes in the context of how dramatically opinion has changed about the origin of Covid-19 snd his advice sounds like a defense of the First Amendment.
Maybe a lazy heuristic. But TBH, when the evidence is murky and there are plenty of experts lining up on both sides, but one side is excessively concerned with policing the discourse, I tend to think that side is more likely than not to be wrong.
Now apply his heuristic to the woke and their "excessive concern" with not saying certain words. "I tend to think that side is more likely than not to be wrong" pretty well defines my view of the woke and their impassioned "policing" of "the discourse."
He identifies yet another reason the First Amendment is important: "discourse" doesn't need "policing." Hat tip to Ed Driscoll posting at Instapundit for the link.
